Long description

The map shows the eastern part of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The largest fonts read ‘Europe’ (on the land above the Aegean Sea) and ‘Asia’ (below the Black Sea). Words in smaller font indicate ‘Hellas’ (in green, where modern-day Greece is located), ‘Assyria’ (north-east of Cyprus), ‘Persia’ (modern-day Iran), and ‘Aegyptos’ (the Nile Delta). There are four places marked in green (Argos, Sparta, Crete, and Halicarnassus), and four in red (Troy, Colchis, the river Phasis, and Tyre). Troy and Halicarnassus are located on the same Ionian coastline (now modern-day Türkiye).