Below is an ancient map produced by Livio Sanuto and published posthumously by his brother Giulio in 1588.

• Livio Sanuto (c. 1520-1576), son of Senator Francesco Sanuto of Venice, was a cosmographer, mathematician and maker of globes. He was a member of the Lafreri school of engravers, whose work marked the transition between Ptolemy's maps and those of Mercator and Ortelius. Livio and his brother Giulio planned a massive and comprehensive atlas comprising maps and descriptions of the whole world, which they believed to be more accurate than any previously published atlas. Seeing that Africa was imperfectly described, he set to work on a book containing 12 large maps drawn by himself and engraved by his brother. For the compilation of his African maps, Sanuto relied on Gastaldi's map of 1564 and on Portuguese nautical charts for coastal mapping and information on the interior, using the accounts of Duarte Barbosa and João de Barros.

In books 10 and 12, Livio describes the manners and customs of Africa and provides the names of all the peoples of Ethiopia and Lower Ethiopia, referring to their territory as Judeorum Terra, meaning the Land of the Jews.

It is important to remember that Ethiopia today is not the same as the Ethiopia mentioned in the Bible. According to the geography of biblical times, Ethiopia was mainly considered to be the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

In Psalm 87:4, it is written that just like the Egyptians and the Philistines, the Ethiopians/cushites were born in Zion.

• Psaumes 87:4 "I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me—along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—when I say, ‘This one was born in Zion.”

​Misraim corresponds to Egypt, Nimrod (son of Cush) corresponds to Babylon, Canaan corresponds to the Philistines, and Put corresponds to Tyre.

Now, if Cush corresponds to ancient Ethiopia, which was once considered the center of Africa, then we must understand that Psalm 87:4 implies that Mount Zion is located in the center of Africa.

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