The Turin Papyrus Map
- Date of account
- Acquired in the early nineteenth century; published 1830s
- Location
- Deir el-Medina provenance; Turin
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map showing a route and mining landscape in the Eastern Desert, usually dated to the New Kingdom. It entered European scholarly circulation in the nineteenth century and became important for reconstructing Egyptian surveying, quarrying and resource administration. Its value for comparison lies in testing claims about ancient technical knowledge against a material document with a complex acquisition and conservation history. Questions include the reconstruction of damaged sections, the precise route represented and how modern cartographic assumptions shape interpretation.
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