The knowledge of the world and the possibility to be oriented have always been basics need for humanity, especially when at the beginning of civilization the man directly depended on nature.
Ancient cartographic documents or better, the first geographical signs drawn by the primitive man portrait in a rough and elementary way the simple surrounding reality, the experienced land.
They are in fact petroglyphs figures on stone, or carved in wood, or even painted on cowhide or leather; they have only practical purposes as witnessed for example by the Babylonian clay tablet ( 1300 b.C.) stored in the British Museum in London, where are reported the conquests of Sargon of Agade and where the Earth is represented, or the papyrus (1200 b.C.) kept in the Egyptian Museum of Turin: it represents the topographical plan of a goldfield located by the city of Nubia, land of the conquer of Seti I, pharaoh of the XIX dynasty.

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