Since their time, the process of getting from A to B and back has developed quite a bit. The map, known today as the Turin Papyrus Map, is considered to be the first of its kind – and a blueprint for many more in the future.Īmmenakht and Rameses used an innovative technology of the time, papyrus, for their map, but you’d be forgiven for not having them in mind when you poke a postcode into your smartphone screen and set off on a new journey. The scribe was a man named Amennakht, and the route was being laid out for an expedition to collect sandstone that would one day be shaped into statues of the king, Ramesses IV. More significantly, however, they were plotting a route. They sketched out a valley – the Wadi Hammamat – the hills surrounding it, a quarry, a mine, the location of gold deposits, and the distribution of different rock formations. Around 1160 BC, someone in Ancient Egypt picked up a piece of papyrus and began to draw.
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