The true mythology of the constellations

The prehistoric Boeotian colonies

Thebae
Prehistoric Chamber Tombs

Eleutherae
The fortification above the city

Ptolemy's Sarmatia (Scythia)

*See also "Scythia" (p. 3 Apr. 2011)
and "Maps of the ancient Balkans" (p. 12 Aug. 2016).

Ancient Southern Asia Minor

Ancient India

Metron Ariston

159 posts - The length of Parthenon.

Ancient Phoenike and Palaestine

                      



Prehistoric and ancient Cyprus

Prehistoric Crete

Dionysos

Dionysos on a  panther - mosaic from Pella

     Athanasios G. Angelopoulos, "Prehistoric colonies of the Greeks"  (1999 - Vol. 2, p. 13).

    The new color map was posted on 15 June 2012 - see also "Argonautica".

Argonautica

The map is based on Ptolemy's "Geography" (c. 140 AD). The ancient maps of Mesopotamia, Arabia, India and SE Asia have been already posted.

Scythia

The great Eleusinian relief
Demeter, Triptolemos, and Kore (Persephone)

National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Ancient Greek cities in Asia

  

  
Taprobane is the ancient Greek name for Sri Lanka.



There is a river Phasis in prehistoric Colchis (near Caucasus) and a river Phasis in Taprobane. According to Nonnos (Dionysiaka 13, 223), the Cretans had built a colony in Colchis. Diodorus (5, 42 and 46) writes that in the island Pachaea near India there were Cretan priests from the time of Zeus. Ptolemy (Geography 7, 2, 25) mentions a city Tharra in Thailand. But this is a Cretan name.

The last three maps are based on Ptolemy's coordinates.

Prehistoric Asia Minor

 

Electra, the Strategis
(from a Greek vase)

Prehistoric Italy