Apr 12, 2019 · A map indicating the major ancient and medieval states in sub-Saharan Africa. Areas and dates relate to a state at its peak. In addition, shaded areas are approximate indicators only. For the majority of the states, their precise borders …

View a map of Africa in 3500 BCE, when hunter-gatherers roam most of the continent and farming is limited to the Nile Valley.

The earliest cartographic depictions of Africa are found in early world maps. In classical antiquity , Africa (also Libya ) was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe south of the Mediterranean , an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps .

"Sketch Map of South Africa showing British Possessions July 1885" from the Scottish Geographical Magazine. Published by the Scottish Geographical Society and edited by Hugh A. Webster and Arthur Silva White.

Four maps of Africa representing its physical geography (in the first map), political boundaries (second map), ethnographic makeup (third map), and population (fourth map). Maps show political boundaries, topography, cities, roads, bodies of …

Jun 22, 2024 · Africa in maps from the Ancient Period (images only)

Jan 20, 2023 · This site features digital copies of 113 antique maps of Africa and accompanying text dating from the mid 16th Century to the early 20th Century. All scanned maps are authentic and originally collected by the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies (or the Africana Library) at Northwestern University.

Jan 8, 2025 · Some early maps, including those from Ptolemaic atlases and the map of world made by al-Idrisi in 1154, showed Africa as uncircumnavigable, prior to the voyage of Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 to the Cape of Good Hope. Other early maps of Africa show the entire continent, with some illustrations of the landscape.