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I don't know if this is the right place to post it, but I have a question regarding one of the exhibitions in Matenadaran which contains Armenian language, so I thought it's not appropriate to ask it in more specialized subs.

Yesterday I was in Matenadaran and I came across this "map" (idk if it can be called one), which includes an outline of continents, including South America, Antarctica and pretty accurate outlines of Eurasia and Africa. The text below says that it's from 2nd century AD. Am I getting something wrong, because I thought so long ago they wouldn't know about those continents and the accurate shape of the ones they did know of?

P.S. there are also the planets, but I have no idea what knowledge they had about them back then.