Historical Sri Lankan Map Collection | Sri Lanka Archaeology
Sri Lanka was a well-known country in the ancient world among the nations in the known world. It also appeared in the Historical Sri Lanka Maps. The following table gives the list of ancient names used by the other nations.
First map of Sri Lanka (Taprobane), c. 194 BC - Archaeology
This map is the first known map that Sri Lanka geographically appears on a map. Eratosthenes (276 to 196 BC) created it in 194 BC and later adopted by Ptolemy in 139 AD. This map is famous as the Eratosthenes’ map of the (for the Greeks) known world.
History of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia
The history of Sri Lanka is unique because its relevance and richness extend beyond the areas of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. The early human remains which were found on the island of Sri Lanka date back to about 38,000 years ago (Balangoda Man). [citation needed]
Old maps of Sri Lanka
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Claudius Ptolemy’s Sri Lankan Map - Archaeology
Ptolemy got the basic idea of the Sri Lankan map from the known world map created by Eratosthenes. He is an Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. This map is known as the Ptolemy’s Taprobane in many old documents. The following map shows Ptolemy’s Taprobana as published in Cosmographia Claudii Ptolomaei Alexandrini, 1535.
Ancient Map of Ceylon – Taprobana – Lankapura
Sri Lanka by that time (early Christian centuries), had a developed civilization with a continued dynastic rule and her reputation itself may have led the Egyptian cartographer to give exaggerated dimensions of the island, besides problems of calculating longitudes and latitudes.
Ancient Maps Of Sri Lanka - The Royal College
2021年11月4日 · Ancient Map of Sri Lanka (1572 AD) Early Roman, Arab, medieval European and Asian maps do not depict the true shape of Sri Lanka in its maps. These maps also contain inaccurate or incomplete depictions of rivers, mountains and other geographical features.