This average resolution labeled guide explains much of the detail on the antique map. You may just want this as a small poster to explain the high resolution antique world map. The Hereford Mundi Map was made around 1300 AD. The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the grandest medieval map known. It reveals how thirteenth century scholars viewed the world in religious and geographical ways. Jerusalem is at the center. 0 - At the centre of the map: Jerusalem, above it: the crucifix. 1 - Paradise, surrounded by a wall and a ring of fire. During World War II this was printed in Japanese textbooks since Paradise appears to be roughly in the location of Japan.[4] 2 - The Ganges and its delta. 3 - The fabulous island of Taphana, sometimes interpreted as Sri Lanka or Sumatra. 4 - Rivers Indus and Tigris. 5 - The Caspian Sea, and the land of Gog and Magog 6 - Babylon and the Euphrates. 7 - The Persian Gulf. 8 - The Red Sea (painted in red). 9 - Noah's Ark. 10 - The Dead Sea, Sodom and Gomorrah, with the River Jordan, coming from the Sea of Galilee; above: Lot's wife. 11 - Egypt with the River Nile. 12 - The River Nile (?), or possibly an allusion to the equatorial ocean; far outside: a land of mutants, possibly the Antipodes. 13 - The Azov Sea with rivers Don and Dnieper; above: the Golden Fleece. 14 - Constantinople; left of it the Danube's delta. 15 - The Aegean Sea. 16 - Oversized delta of the Nile with Alexandria's Pharos lighthouse. 17 - The legendary Norwegian Gansmir, with his skis and ski pole. 18 - Greece with Mt. Olympus, Athens and Corinth 19 - Misplaced Crete with the Minotaur's circular labyrinth. 20 - The Adriatic Sea; Italy with Rome, honoured by a popular Latin hexameter; Roma caput mundi tenet orbis frena rotundi ("Rome, the head, holds the reins of the world"). 21 - Sicily and Carthage, opposing Rome, right of it. 22 - Scotland. 23 - England. 24 - Ireland. 25 - The Balearic Islands. 26 - The Strait of Gibraltar (the Pillars of Hercules). The Hereford Mappa