On the recommendation of a friend in Siwa, I found a papyrus preserved in London that I did not know, discovered more than a century ago which bears a "Postcard" sent by a certain Nearchus to his frie
Siwa and its region in the geographical maps "Tertia Africae Tabula" published at Rome in 1478During the Middle Ages Western cartography knew practically nothing of the interior of Africa and reported, in an uncertain way, what was...