The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map.

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

In a revelation that bridges millennia, the Babylonian Map of the World, or "Imago Mundi," has emerged as a dazzling relic of ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of ...

The Babylonian tablet has a circular map with pieces of text written in cuneiform - an ancient writing system that used wedge-shaped symbols - which describes the early creation of the world.

Reading the Babylonian relic, which includes a circular map accompanied by text in the ancient style of cuneiform which used wedge-shaped symbols, has unlocked an array of secrets.

The “oldest map of the world in the world ... known story today — essentially the Babylonian version of the biblical story of Noah’s Ark. The ancient Babylonians believed the remnants ...

The map called Imago Mundi ... eclipses as terrifying ominous signs of death and destruction. THE ancient state of Babylonia was located in the central Mesopotapia (today's Iraq and parts ...

By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia, unless, of course, an eclipse occurred during his reign. Such an event foretold revolt, rebellion, defeat in war, loss of territory ...