Map Of The Ancient World. Map of the ancient world. During the time of the old testament the ancient world extended from egypt to asia minor over to the caspian sea and down to the persian gulf.

The map shown here is a terrain relief image of the world with the boundaries of major countries shown as white lines. Find the perfect ancient world map stock photo. Many of them were originally created for and distributed by sardis verlag, a now defunct small german publisher.

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The map as reconstructed by eckhard unger shows babylon on the euphrates, surrounded by a circular landmass including assyria, urartu and several cities, in turn surrounded by a bitter river (), with eight outlying regions (nagu) arranged around it in the shape of triangles, so as to form. Map of the ancient world. Lowest elevations are shown as a dark green color with a gradient from green to dark brown to gray as elevation increases. The mythology section is useful for those studying greek and latin who would like.