{"id":1787241,"date":"2019-04-17T08:37:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T12:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787241"},"modified":"2019-04-17T08:37:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T12:37:38","slug":"archaeology-magazine-on-ancient-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/04\/archaeology-magazine-on-ancient-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeology Magazine on Ancient Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

The May\/June 2019 issue<\/a> of\u00a0Archaeology<\/em> magazine looks at some truly ancient maps<\/a>, many of which\u2014tablets, papyruses, stick charts\u2014challenge our ideas of what maps ought to look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The May\/June 2019 issue of\u00a0Archaeology magazine looks at some truly ancient maps, many of which\u2014tablets, papyruses, stick charts\u2014challenge our ideas of what maps ought to look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1787241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1790790,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/05\/another-maps-issue-from-library-of-congress-magazine\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787241,"position":0},"title":"Another Maps Issue from Library of Congress Magazine","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"6 May 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The May-June 2021 issue of Library of Congress Magazine is entirely given over to maps: a lot of short one-page features on all sorts of subjects from Ortelius to COVID. 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