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Turin Papyrus Map, located in the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy.  Egyptian Papyrus Geological & Topographical Map  Oldest Surviving Geological & Topographical Map  Circa 1150 BCE  Maps Use  Foreign Conquest  Economic Exploitation  National Defense  The invention of printing made maps more easily produced and distributed.

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1.Cassell, K. A. & Hiremath, U. (2009). Reference and Information Services in the 21 st Century. (2 ed., ). New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. 2.Harrell, J. A. & Brown, V. M. (1992). The World’s Oldest Surviving Geological Map: The 1150 B.C. Turin Papyrus from Egypt. The Journal of Geology, 100(1), Retrieved from Harrell, J. A. & Brown, V. M. (1992). The Oldest Surviving Topographical Map from Ancient Egypt: (Turin Papyri 1879, 1899, and 1969). The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 29, Retrieved from