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 Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately ...

The discovery was made by researchers Georgi Georgiev and Ivelina Georgieva during an expedition near the village of ...

A set of broken stones covered with etchings of lines and squares, discovered at a 5,000-year-old sacred site in Denmark, may be some of humankind’s earliest maps, according to archaeologists.

5 Strange Ancient Maps Show How Different The World Looked To Our Ancestors. ... c. 1300 CE, is the largest surviving world map from the middle ages — 64 by 52 inches.

The World According To Hecataeus About 520 B.C. [with] The World According To Herodotus About 450 B.C. (to Accompany) Cram's Atlas of the World, Ancient and Modern : New Census Edition-Indexed. 1901.

No maps remain from the Ancient Greeks and Romans, yet we know that they looked to the stars and to the widening world around them and responded with their own influential cartography.

The Nebra sky disc, one of Germany's most heralded prehistoric artifacts, is often considered the world's oldest depiction of the cosmos. For a relatively small object -- the gold-speckled disc is ...

The broken stones, covered with etchings of lines and squares, were discovered at a 5,000-year-old sacred site in Denmark.