The Ancient World · event 7 of 11

c. 150 AD

Pausanias writes a guidebook. The Greek geographer produces the Description of Greece — ten volumes of routes, distances, monuments and what to look at when you get there. It is recognisably a guidebook, and archaeologists still use it to locate sites.

The The Ancient World era

  1. c. 3000 BC
  2. c. 1500 BC
  3. c. 776 BC
  4. c. 440 BC
  5. c. 130 BC
  6. c. 100 AD
  7. c. 150 AD
  8. 326 AD
  9. c. 630 AD
  10. 632 AD
  11. c. 1000

See the full timeline or read the short history of travel.