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THE SEARCH FOR KING SOLOMON’S TREASURE SOURCEBOOK
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OUR EXPLANATION OF THE PERIPLUS PERSPECTIVE:
17
charting
the periplus
of the
erythaean sea [17]
ASIA
IN THE FIRST CENTURY MINDSET
EUROPE
Compare to Maps on Previous Page.
Tyre
Mediterr
anean S
ea
Israel
AFRICA
Eziongeber
tropic of cancer
INDIA
GANGES
RIVER
ea
THIS AREA
EXPLORED BY
THE PERIPLUS
CREW
NOTE: Quotes in order of the arrows beginning
North of China. Tropic of Cancer is an approximation.
“After these, the course turns toward the
east again, and sailing with the ocean to
the right and the shore remaining beyond
to the left, Ganges comes into view, and
near it the very last land toward the east”
“After this region under
the very north (likely
Tropic of Cancer), the
sea outside ending in a
land called This.” [China]
“And just opposite this river there is an
island in the ocean...”
(What island is East of the Ganges?
Not a peninsula but an island.
The Philippines in their mindset.)
dS
Re
Red Sea
port
CHINA
Map Created By Timothy Schwab ©2020.
SRI LANKA
(TAPROBANE)
Indian Ocean
SOUTH
SAUDI
ARABIA
“...the last part of the
inhabited world toward
the east, under the
rising sun itself...”
NOTE: The Periplus author explored the coast of India to the Ganges
and did not find Chryse there but describes it further East. He did
journey beyond the Ganges and never calls Chryse a peninsula but
an island thus the Malay Peninsula is erroneous.
this area
missing from
most
first century
maps
JAPAN
land of
the
rising sun
SEA OUTSIDE OF
CHINA UNDER THE
RISING SUN
very north
CHRYSE
OPHIR
PHILIPPINES
land of
the
morning
Most cartographers and
historians melt India bleeding
into China. Indochina and
Malaysia are not even there.
This must be taken into
account in order to interpret.
our interpretation of the first century mindset:
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NOTE: SAME 2
ISLANDS ARE
“Between Colis [southeastern tip of SE OF CHINA
chryse & argyre [16]
Asia/Malay Peninsula] and Tamus
NOWHERE
IN THE FIRST CENTURY MINDSET
[China’] the coast runs straight.”
ASIA
(The isles by Indochina–Philippine Isles.)NEAR INDIA
Compare to Map on Previous Page.
Map Created By Timothy Schwab ©2020. BUT THEY
“According to olden writers,
“In the vicinity of Tamus [China]
“...in the vicinity of
STILL CALLED
(unknown lost Greek works)
is the island of Chryse;”
the Ganges that of
the soil of the former consists of gold,
(The MalayINDOCHINA
Peninsula is not in
Argyre.”
that of the latter is of silver...”
the vicinity of China nor an isle)
(No such isles are found at the mouth of the actual
(Still Philippines)
INDIA BACK
CHINA
Ganges only the perceived one. We will cover the
Philippines is recorded with gold close to the surface.)
THEN.
GANGES
charting
NOTE: Quotes in order of the arrows beginning in China.
pomponius mela
EUROPE
Tyre
Mediterr
anean S
AFRICA
ea
Israel
Eziongeber
INDIA
SAUDI
ARABIA
RIVER
dS
Re
Red Sea
port
ea
NOTE: First century maps often render the Ganges
in Indochina emptying into the South China Sea. This
is because they do not draw Malaysia nor Indochina
typically and confuse the area. Argyre is usually located
right near the mouth of their drawing of the Ganges which
is the South China Sea not the Indian Ocean.
SRI LANKA
(TAPROBANE)
Indian Ocean
this area
missing from
most
first century
maps
ISLES
BETWEEN
MALAY TIP
& CHINA
PHILIPPINES
CHRYSE
OPHIR
Most cartographers and
historians melt India bleeding
into China. Indochina and
Malaysia are not even there.
This must be taken into
account in order to interpret.
50. “19th-century reconstruction of Eratosthenes’ map of the (for the Greeks) known world,” c. 194 BC.
Public Domain. Hi Res image from Alamy.
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