The Geography, also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Ro
A 3rd century papyrus fragment of Ptolemy's Table of Noteworthy Cities
The Golden Chersonese or Golden Khersonese, meaning the Golden Peninsula, was the name used for the Malay Peninsula by Greek and Roman geographers in classical antiquity, most famously in Claudius Pto
Geography (Ptolemy)
…The same revision [of the longitudinal dimension] on the basis of journeys by sea On the crossing from the Golden Peninsula to Kattigara On the inconsistencies in details of Marinos' exposition…