English: This is Karl von Spruner’s 1865 map of The World at the Time of the Persian Empire with eleven insets. The insets (starting clockwise from the upper-left quadrant) feature “Persepolis”, “Arx Susiana”, “the Kingdoms of Lydia, Babylon, and Media”, “Babylon”, “The Acropolis of Babylon”, “The Nile Delta”, “Samos”, “The Burial Grounds at Sardis”, “Persepolis –Pasargadae”, “Africa: The West Coast” and “Sush”. Countries and territories outlined in color. The whole is rendered in finely engraved detail exhibiting throughout the fine craftsmanship of the Perthes firm.