Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin) What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient ...
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Ancient map reveals the known world from the 6th century BCEThe Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world. Carved onto a clay tablet around the 5th century BCE, it was uncovered in ...
Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the ...
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