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Western Han Mawangdui Silk Map

A Chinese topographic map (with the south positioned at the top) from Mawangdui tomb 3; dated to the early Western Han period (183–168 BC); length is 96 cm; width is 96 cm; the map is made of ink on silk. It is now housed in the Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha. The map depicts a large territory in southern China spanning from the imperial fiefdom of Changsha (a semi-autonomous kingdom within the Han Empire, now modern-day Hunan) to the independent and sometimes hostile Kingdom of Nanyue in what is now modern-day Guangdong and northern Vietnam.

Mapmaker / publisher
Anonymous ancient Chinese cartographer
Place
Nanyue
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
3,675 × 3,549 pixels

Public domain

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

This status rests on the map's publication history, as researched by Wikimedia Commons. Check it before commercial use.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

Credit line

"Western Han Mawangdui Silk Map". Anonymous ancient Chinese cartographer, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Western_Han_Mawangdui_Silk_Map.JPG

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