Category: Historical Sri Lankan Maps

Ptolemy’s Sri Lankan Map (Ptolemy Sri Lanka Map) created by  Claudius Ptolemy is the most famous historical map of this island nation. Ptolemy created this map in 139 AD. The Greeks called Sri Lanka Taprobana or Taprobane. Ptolemy Ptolemy got the basic idea of the Sri Lankan map from the known world map created by Eratosthenes. […]

Eratosthenes This map is the first known map that Sri Lanka geographically appears on a map. Eratosthenes (276 to 196 BC) created it in 194 BC and later adopted by Ptolemy in 139 AD. This map is famous as the Eratosthenes’ map of the (for the Greeks) known world. The Eratosthenes of Cyrene is best […]