Clay tablet prob. 1400 BC
Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer
The Beatus Map or Beatine Map is one of the most significant cartographic works of the European Early Middle Ages: It was originally drawn by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana
Hereford Cathedral is home to the Hereford Mappa Mundi, one of the world’s unique medieval treasures. Measuring 1.59 x 1.34 metres (5’2” by 4’4”), the map is constructed on a single sheet of vellum (calf skin)
Showing Ireland with Dublin and Bangor marked
Ireland, the Mercator map of 1570 and the Down Survey map 1658