<P> In contrast, the Babylonian World Map, the earliest surviving map of the world (c. 600 BC), is a symbolic, not a literal representation . It deliberately omits peoples such as the Persians and Egyptians, who were well known to the Babylonians . The area shown is depicted as a circular shape surrounded by water, which fits the religious image of the world in which the Babylonians believed . </P> <P> Examples of maps from ancient Egypt are quite rare . However, those that have survived show an emphasis on geometry and well - developed surveying techniques, perhaps stimulated by the need to re-establish the exact boundaries of properties after the annual Nile floods . The Turin Papyrus Map, dated c. 1160 BC, shows the mountains east of the Nile where gold and silver were mined, along with the location of the miners' shelters, wells, and the road network that linked the region with the mainland . Its originality can be seen in the map's inscriptions, its precise orientation, and the use of colour . </P> <P> In reviewing the literature of early geography and early conceptions of the earth, all sources lead to Homer, who is considered by many (Strabo, Kish, and Dilke) as the founding father of Geography . Regardless of the doubts about Homer's existence, one thing is certain: he never was a mapmaker . </P> <P> The depiction of the Earth conceived by Homer, which was accepted by the early Greeks, represents a circular flat disk surrounded by a constantly moving stream of Ocean, an idea which would be suggested by the appearance of the horizon as it is seen from a mountaintop or from a seacoast . Homer's knowledge of the Earth was very limited . He and his Greek contemporaries knew very little of the Earth beyond Egypt as far south as the Libyan desert, the south - west coast of Asia Minor, and the northern boundary of the Greek homeland . Furthermore, the coast of the Black Sea was only known through myths and legends that circulated during his time . In his poems there is no mention of Europe and Asia as geographical concepts . That is why the big part of Homer's world that is portrayed on this interpretive map represents lands that border on the Aegean Sea . It is worth noting that even though Greeks believed that they were in the middle of the earth, they also thought that the edges of the world's disk were inhabited by savage, monstrous barbarians and strange animals and monsters; Homer's Odyssey mentions a great many of them . </P>

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