“He invented geography, but it was just because he wanted to do better horoscopes,” notes Matthew Edney, a professor of cartography at the University of Southern Maine. Ptolemy gathered ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician ... Much of medieval astronomy and geography were built on his ideas: his world map, published as part of his treatise Geography in the 2nd century ...

The identification of the fort of Tabus is not certain, but the site of Alalis in the Ptolemy’s Geography has been suggested. The architecture and associated finds point to the latest rebuilding and ...