A 16th-century map of Africa from Castel Farnese.
In addition to the full-flowing rivers, lakes, and their basins, it shows the mountains that divide the continent, of which there is now no information either. Many towns on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea and in the interior of Africa. Even today's settlements in this area can hardly be called cities, and back then... Whose were they?
And the African coast of the Mediterranean Sea is rather empty, although, according to traditional notions, northern Africa was densely populated and there should have been dozens of cities.
