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

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

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

When it comes to operating beyond the limits of the known world into the world of imagination, [the tablet] is indispensable, ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with Babylon at its center and surrounded by water ...

The world map we see today has grown through the efforts of many explorers who have charted new boundaries, continually ...

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 ...

Researchers have finally decoded a Babylonian tablet thought to be the oldest map of the world. Created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago, the Imago Mundi provided researchers with a unique ...

What it is: A type of ceremonial suit constructed of jade pieces and worn by royal members of China's Han dynasty (ruled from ...

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A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on Long Island for stating in an online chat that he wanted to shoot up Brennan High ...