Map of Eurasia

By N.S. Gill

Map of Eurasia from the Caspian Sea showing land of tribes like the Sythians as well as areas of the Iranians and Indians, through 50 degrees of longitude heading eastward.

Author: Ptolemy, 2nd cent. Publisher: Pencio, Jacopo Date: 1511 Location: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Scythia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan Dimension: 29 x 45 cm. Scale: [ca. 1:10,000,000]

CC Flickr User Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL

This map is based on the work of Claudius Ptolemy who is responsible for our use of lines of latitude and longitude on maps. Ptolemy also aligned maps in the traditional format with north on top. Note that this is a topographical map showing mountains and rivers, as well as many of the nomadic and more settled tribes of this area between the Caspian Sea and the Ganges and Imaum or Tian Shan mountains of Central Asia.On the next page, you'll see another map from Ptolemy going further eastward, but still covering territory on which the Scythians lived.