A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian ...

The 3,000-year-old map places the Ark beyond Mesopotamia, in an unknown land where jewels hang from trees instead of fruit. advertisement. ExplorersWeb. Noah’s Ark Shown on Ancient Babylonian Map.

The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring — which the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river,” a river that created the borders around the Babylonians’ known world.

Between Two Rivers Moudhy Al-Rashid (Hachette (UK, 20 February); W. W. Norton (US, 12 August)). A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land ...

This is a companion volume and sequel to Early Mesopotamia and Iran: Contact and Conflict, c. 3500-1600 BC. ... 95 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm Place Iraq Iran Data Source ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia , according to ...

The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. and is thought to be the earliest writing system ...