German researchers say that they have decoded references in Ptolemy’s Geographia and connected ancient Germanic settlements to present-day German cities, which “makes half the cities in Germany suddenly 1,000 years older than previously believed,” Der Spiegel reports. Via @scilib.
Geographia and Germania first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on October 20, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.
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