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MO 003 | Map (la Barbarie) | National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco | 1843 | | This mid-19th-century map shows Morocco and the states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. The place names are given in French. Originally in monochrome, the owner added colour to emphasise boundaries.
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TN 049 | Carte du royaume de Tunis | Musée de la Monnaie : Banque centrale de Tunisie | 1727 | Papier | Sir Thomas Shaw travelled extensively in North Africa and the Middle East. He wrote accounts of his travels, particularly to Tunis. His illustrative maps are among the earliest produced. They mark the names of ancient sites in the region. | |
DZ 083 | Map of Oran | Musée Public National des Antiquités | 1840–1846 | | The architect Amable Ravoisie was part of a large team of specialists who set out to document the new French colony of Algeria. His drawings lavishly illustrate hundreds of monuments.
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DZ 084 | The port of Cherchell | Musée Public National des Antiquités | 1840–1847 | | The architect Amable Ravoisie was part of a large team of specialists who set out to document the new French colony of Algeria. His drawings lavishly illustrate hundreds of monuments. | DZ 085 | Mostaganem | Musée Public National des Antiquités | 1840–1848 | | The architect Amable Ravoisie was part of a large team of specialists who set out to document the new French colony of Algeria. His drawings lavishly illustrate hundreds of monuments. | |
UA 001 | Map to illustrate the Route of David Roberts Esq. R. A. in the Holy Land, Petrea and Syria | Sharjah Art Museum / Sharjah Museums Authority | Published 1849 | Coloured steel engraving | This finely engraved and detailed map shows the areas visited by the Scottish artist David Roberts (1796–1864) during the 11 months he spent travelling between Egypt, the Sinai, Jordan and Palestine in 1838/39. Maps like this one were provided with each complete set of the lithographs of his works, to help trace the locations Roberts visited and sketched. The map is very helpful in locating those sites, especially as the names used by Roberts were sometimes inaccurate or have since changed.
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UK 084 | New maps | The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) | c. 1900 | | George Armstrong, a sergeant in the British Royal Engineers Corps, was a key member of the Survey Party who later made a 3-D “Raised Contour Map” of Palestine from the 2-D maps originally produced. This was shown all over the Western world, and won him a medal at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1903. It was the first such map ever constructed of Palestine, and served to introduce scholars and the public to the nature of the landscape in a way that no previous maps had done.
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UK 085 | SWP Geological Map | The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) | 1880’s | | This was the first geological map of Palestine, drawn up in the late 1880s by Edward Hull. It enabled, for the first time, the accurate assessment of the geological resources of the country, and potentially their exploitation to the benefit of the local economy, as well as revealing the history and structure of the landscape. | |
UK 081 | Watercolour by Claude R. Conder | The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) | 1870’s | | Watercolour by Claude R. Conder of the British Corps of Royal Engineers, made during the Survey of Western Palestine, showing one of the members of the SWP at work with one of the expedition’s theodolites. The technology used was the latest cutting-edge equipment and techniques available to the British army, which was far in advance of what was being used, for example, by the American army of the day, as was demonstrated when Lieut. Steever of the US Engineers carried out a similar survey in Transjordan.
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UK 082 | Survey of Western Palestine | The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) | 1875 | | Field sheet showing a week’s work mapping the environs of Gaza for the SWP dated 29 April 1875. The SWP was the first detailed and fully accurate map ever made of Palestine, at 1 inch to the mile, for the Palestine Exploration Fund. The Survey Party was commanded by Lieut. Claude R. Conder, R.E., and his assistant, Lieut. H.H. Kitchener. | UK 068 | Plan of Jerusalem | The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) | 1867 | | Plan of the area to the south of the Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem, showing the location of the shafts dug by Lieut. Charles Warren, R.E. and his team, to explore the topography of ancient Jerusalem. This work established the history of the development of the Old City of Jerusalem. While engaged in this work, Warren also carried out a major study of the economy of Jerusalem in the period 1867–70, which was published in the SWP in 1884. | |
FR 013 | Archaeological and topographic map of the Carthaginian ruins | National Library of France | 1907 | | The famous old city of Carthage had long lain in ruins. In the 19th century, the site was rediscovered and made popular through the publication of Gustave Flaubert’s Salammbô in 1862. Archaeologists felt the need for maps keenly. In 1833, a Danish naval officer, Christian Théodore Falbe, offers his Recherches sur l’emplacement de Carthage. At the end of the 19th century, maps compiled by the British army’s Geographical Service assisted archaeological work, especially on land-use planning known as centuriation.
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FR 158 | Sketch of Algeria, featuring the Roman occupation, the railway lines, roads suitable for mule and horse drawn vehicles, ports […] drawn from an archaeological point of view and dedicated to ... | National Library of France | 1869 | | The Algerian Historical Society made this map to facilitate research on the Roman occupation there. It records the major sites, shows how to get there, and includes elements to increase understanding of the Roman presence (marble quarries, the sites of baths, etc.).
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MO 002 | Map (Africa magna) | General Library and Archives | Early 18th century | Paper | The place names on this 18th-century map of North Africa are given in Latin. Originally in monochrome, the owner added colour to emphasise boundaries.
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