This is a quote from Marcus Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher writing about 2100 years ago.
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"
The Translation is from the Robert Harris novel Imperium, which is what I'm reading just now.
Anyway the puzzle is to do with the way we see things, back in around 1250 AD making maps was very tricky, there was no easy way to determine the shape of Britain.
I really don't know how anyone would get on any better with trying to work out the shape of land masses, without some fairly advanced equipment which just wasn't available back in the middle of the 1200s.
You can see Hadrian's Wall and the less famous Antonine Wall, there are quite a lot of major rivers shown crossing places are very important and clearly marked. So the puzzle is is for anyone who wants to do it. I have put two faint arrows one green and one purple near the bottom of the map can you identify the places they point at.
The map was drawn by Matthew Paris somewhere between 1250 and 1259.
next a bit of today's news
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climate change is a great worry at the moment
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