The Bedolina Map is a famous engraved prehistoric rock which is part of the Camonica Valley petroglyph complex in Italy. It is known as one of the most ancient topographic maps, interpreted as a depiction of cultivated plots, mountain paths and villages. Made between 1400 and 500 BCE [2048×2988]
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[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedolina_Map](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedolina_Map)
I’d like to see that superimposed on a modern map.
In the very left you can see the Camunic Rose (just immediately under the group of animals): today it is the official crest of Lombardy region.
Edit: Camunian Rose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camunian_rose?wprov=sfla1
Has anyone tried to match the map to archeological places?
OP your posts on this sub are amazing. Just discovered then
Absolutely fascinating! Had never heard of this!
Anybody else get mentally flash banged with an Age of Empires campaign level?
love this post.
can we talk about the gym-bro lifting weights at the bottom edge of map?
I don’t know why but for some reason, what appears to be a ladder in the bottom left is what amazes me most. It really feels like a link between me and someone 3000 years ago.
I don’t know why, but I have never thought of ladders before when I thought about humanity over three thousand years ago, which is stupid as so much amazing things were already built by then that required way more than a simple ladder.
Looks like a Farming Simulator map
Pre-Historic and made between 1400-500 BC? Can someone explain that to a layman like me?
EDIT: Cool post though!
Huh. Looks very like some of the petroglyphs and pictograms in the American Southwest.
I went there 🤩
Obsessed with the little dudes they drew around haha
It’d be a real shame if someone came and cut it to put it in their living room floor. It’d be a real shame /s
i really like that is kinda similar with how i drew a map to my school fried so he could find my house. Humanity didn’t change much at all.
That’s crazy. So interesting
So was there a giant hill nearby? Or like… A tower? How did they read these?!
If I still had making 3D videogame levels as a hobby, I’d take a shot at creating this virtually.
Where’s the “You Are Here” star?
Back in the days when the kids still had teeter totters, I see.
Need to know where your going? Stop by make a rubbing and off ya go.
Easier to understand than modern maps lol