MAKE A MEME View Large Image Western Han Mawangdui Silk Map.JPG A Chinese topographic map with the south positioned at the top from Mawangdui tomb 3; dated to the early Western Han period 183 168 BC ; length is 96 cm; width is 96 cm; the map is made of ink on silk It ...
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Keywords: Western Han Mawangdui Silk Map.JPG A Chinese topographic map with the south positioned at the top from Mawangdui tomb 3; dated to the early Western Han period 183 168 BC ; length is 96 cm; width is 96 cm; the map is made of ink on silk It is now housed in the Hunan Provincial Museum Changsha The map depicts a large territory in southern China spanning from the imperial fiefdom of Changsha a semi-autonomous kingdom within the Han Empire now modern-day Hunan to the independent and sometimes hostile Kingdom of Nanyue in what is now modern-day Guangdong and northern Vietnam Scanned from Barbieri-Low Anthony J 2007 Artisans in Early Imperial China Seattle and London University of Washington Press ISBN 0295987138 Page 174 2nd century BC anywhere from 183 to 168 BC Anonymous ancient Chinese cartographer cypraea mappa map comparison jpg PD-old Maps of the Han Dynasty Maps of the Western Han Dynasty Ancient Chinese maps former to 1500 2th century BC Mawangdui Hunan Provincial Museum Silk map Maps of Nanyue
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