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One side of the ‘Saint-Bélec Slab’ (Image credit: Denis Gliksman).
This poem is inspired by recent research, which has found that a 4,000-year-old carved stone slab is Europe’s oldest known map.
The ‘Saint-Bélec Slab’, is a 2m by 1.5m stone slab that was first discovered in 1900 by Paul du Châtellier, a local archaeologist, during an excavation of prehistoric burial ground in Finistère, western Brittany, France. After its discovery in 1900 it was moved to the Kernuz Castle, du Châtellier’s home and private museum. In 1924, it was acquired and then moved to the National Museum of Archaeology, hosted in the Royal Castle at Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Paris region). The slab was then stored in the niche of the moat of the Saint-Germain-en-Laye Castle until the 1990s, and then moved to one of the cellars of the Castle, where it was re-discovered by researchers who had read du Châtellier’s original reports and had come to the conclusion that the slab might represent an ea
Europe s oldest map is a carved stone slab from the Bronze Age CNN 2 hrs ago © From Bournemouth University
A slab of stone, engraved with intricate lines and motifs dating to the Bronze Age, has been revealed to be Europe s oldest map, researchers say.
Using high-resolution 3D surveys and photogrammetry, researchers re-examined the Saint-Bélec Slab an engraved and partly broken piece of stone that was discovered in 1900 but forgotten about for almost a century.
Researchers from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap), the UK s Bournemouth University, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Western Brittany say the recent study of the stone has revealed it to be the oldest cartographic representation of a known territory in Europe.
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(CNN) A slab of stone, engraved with intricate lines and motifs dating to the Bronze Age, has been revealed to be Europe s oldest map, researchers say.
Using high-resolution 3D surveys and photogrammetry, researchers re-examined the Saint-Bélec Slab an engraved and partly broken piece of stone that was discovered in 1900 but forgotten about for almost a century.
Researchers from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap), the UK s Bournemouth University, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Western Brittany say the recent study of the stone has revealed it to be the oldest cartographic representation of a known territory in Europe.
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