01 October 2010
Part 1
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The researchers appear, for example, to have accurately located three particularly important Germanic sites, known to Ptolemy as "Eburodunum,"
"Amisia" and "Luppia." The new calculations put these sites at the present day cities of Brno, Fritzlar und Bernburg (Saale), all places already
possessing unusually distinguished recorded histories.
A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always stumped scholars, who were unable to relate the places depicted to known settlements.
Now a team of researchers have cracked the code, revealing that half of Germany's cities are 1,000 years older than previously thought.
The founding of Rome has been pinpointed to the year 753. For the city of St. Petersburg, records even indicate the precise day the first foundation
stone was laid.
Historians don't have access to this kind of precision when it comes to German cities like Hanover, Kiel or Bad Driburg. The early histories of nearly
all the German cities east of the Rhine are obscure, and the places themselves are not mentioned in documents until the Middle Ages. So far, no one
has been able to date the founding of these cities.
Rainy Realm of Barbarians
One of these drawings depicts "Germania Magna," the rainy realm inhabited, according to Roman sources, by rough barbarians whose reproductive drive,
they said, was giving rise to an alarming number of tribes.
There are three more maps at the link.
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Part 2: 'Lost Places in Our Past'
The new map suggests that minor German towns such as Salzkotten or Lalendorf have existed for at least 2,000 years. "Treva," located at the confluence
of the Elbe and Alster Rivers, was the precursor to Hamburg; Leipzig was known as "Aregelia."
All this offers up rather exciting prospects, since it makes half the cities in Germany suddenly 1,000 years older than previously believed. "Our
atlas is a treasure map," team member Andreas Kleineberg says proudly, "and the coordinates lead to lost places in our past."
Archaeological interest in the map will likely be correspondingly large.
In 150 AD, the mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy embarked on a project to depict the entire known world. Living in Alexandria, in the shadow of its
monumental lighthouse, the ancient scholar drew 26 maps in colored ink on dried animal skins. This photo shows an 18th century depiction of
Ptolemy.
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This is interesting in that it has a connection to Rome, more and more evidence is coming to light that indeed All Roads Lead to Rome.
So much of ancient history is missing, very difficult to have any kind of accurate time line, the more that is found the more sense can hopefully be
made.
The maps that the mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy drew are quite amazing and a great find, he must have traveled extensively at that time,
reminds me a little of Lewis and Clark who mapped the Great American West.
There are interesting articles of Bribes and Assassinations and Military work in that era in Part 2.
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