# The World according to Herodotus (1897 reconstruction)

> A Victorian map of the world Herodotus described, with Mount Atlas, the Atlantes and the salt ridge to the Pillars of Heracles; no Atlantis.

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/artifacts/ART0DCP8P2KV0T8/the-world-according-to-herodotus-1897-reconstruction  
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# The World according to Herodotus (1897 reconstruction)

PhotographPublic domain1897

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[![British Library scan, HMNTS 9025.bbb.13, released through the Mechanical Curator collection; Commons licence tag PD-old-70-1923.](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/eye-of-the-sahara-herodotus-map)](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/eye-of-the-sahara-herodotus-map?w=2000)

British Library scan, HMNTS 9025.bbb.13, released through the Mechanical Curator collection; Commons licence tag PD-old-70-1923.

A Victorian map of the world Herodotus described, with Mount Atlas, the Atlantes and the salt ridge to the Pillars of Heracles; no Atlantis.

Unnamed cartographer for A. J. Grant (ed.), Herodotus, vol. 2 (John Murray, 1897). Public domain

## Copies 1

**The world according to herodotus** Unnamed cartographer for A. J. Grant (ed.), Herodotus, vol. 2 (John Murray, 1897) · commons.wikimedia.org · 1897 · Public domainPrimary source: [Herodotus. The text of Canon Rawlinson's translation, with the notes abridged, vol. 2 (map: The World according to Herodotus)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DCP282FAFYF/herodotus-the-text-of-canon-rawlinsons-translation-with-the)2 steps from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HERODOTUS(1897)_p2.387_THE_WORLD_ACCORDING_TO_HERDOTUS.jpg)

## Sources 2

- [Herodotus. The text of Canon Rawlinson's translation, with the notes abridged, vol. 2 (map: The World according to Herodotus)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DCP282FAFYF/herodotus-the-text-of-canon-rawlinsons-translation-with-the)_SRC_
- [Histories, Book 4, chapters 178–185](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DCP0QSXRWFS/histories-book-4-chapters-178185)_SRC_

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The World according to Herodotus (1897 reconstruction) [Artifact ART0DCP8P2KV0T8]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ART0DCP8P2KV0T8
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1897

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