What looks from afar like a child's drawing of the sun turns out to be a detailed map of Mesopotamia. It was set in clay around 600 BCE, and may be based on an even older original. The clearest ...

The British Museum, renowned for its extensive collection of global artifacts and ancient remnants, recently showcased a remarkable historical find in a YouTube video. Titled “the oldest map of the ...

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

Researchers are shedding light on an ancient Babylonian tablet known as the oldest map of the world. The map was likely created around 2,600 years ago and offers a glimpse into the past.

The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.