World map by Cosmas Indicopleustes / Image Credit: upload.wikimedia.org
Cosmas Indicopleustes (literally: "who sailed to India") was a 6th-century merchant and geographer who sailed to India and traded as far as Sri Lanka. His work Topographia Christiana or Christian Topography provides an invaluable description of the India and Sri Lanka in the sixth century.
This geographer from Alexandria in Egypt had visited the Kingdom of AxumOffsite Link in modern Ethiopia and Eritrea, India and Sri Lanka.
The author Topographia Christiana provides a description of India and Sri LankaOffsite Link during of the 6th century. According to Cosmas Indikopliustes, the world was flat as opposed to Ptolemy and pre-Christian geographer who believed that the earth is spherical.
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