Fresco on Monastery Wall

Posted on by mcohen15

Monastery wall, Agrigento Archaeological Museum, 13th century

The archaeological museum in Agrigento is located inside an old monastery and one of the frescoes from that time is a map of the “known world” that includes Europe, Africa, and Asia but not America.

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