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FBI Returns Stolen Maps to Spain
Submitted by Sabine Berard on Tue, 2007/11/20 - 18:36.
1401 CE to 1500 CE | Cartography | Modern Society | Spanish
Earlier this year, a man named Cesar Gomez Rivero from Uruguay allegedly walked into the Biblioteca Nacional de España and swiped a series of maps from a 15th century edition of Geographia (one of four major treatises of Ptolemy, the Greek scholar who lived in Roman Egypt during the second century).
Two of the world maps have been found by an FBI agent in New York and are being returned to Spain. So far 11 of the maps have been recovered by law enforcement — in four different countries on four different continents. [Photo] |
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