 Ptolemy's "Geography", based on the work by Marinus of Tyre, contains the best-known and perhaps the earliest reference to the Golden Chersonese.However, "Geography" includes information added by later geographers, and the first specific mention of the Golden Chersonese may be in the work of Marcian of Heraclea.Chersonese means peninsula in Greek, and although a few early scholars had attempted to link the Golden Chersonese with Lower Burma, the term is now generally accepted to mean the Malay Peninsula.