Maps The Arab geographer Al-Idrisi (1100-1166) drew an early circular map of Europe, Asia and Africa in surprising detail including India, Tibet, China, North Africa, Ghana,...
In ancient Baghdad, the scholar known as Caliph Mamoun founded the “Beit al-Hikamah” (House of Wisdom), an academy, library, museum, observatory and translation center in 830 A.D.
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