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 ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Archeologists are hoping that an ancient map, left largely unstudied for 4,000 years, can point them towards some hidden secrets of the ancient world. The Bronze Age map, at first look, is just a ...

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 ...

Interactive map reveals travel times in Ancient Rome – and it will make your daily commute feel like a breeze At its largest, the Roman Empire covered a staggering 1,061,780 square miles ...

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.

The Babylonian Map of the World, c. 510-c. 500 BC. Found in the collection of British ... The tablet shows a circular world map with the ancient city of Babylon represented as a long rectangle.

Scientists Have an Audacious Plan to Map the Ancient World Before It Disappears Buried civilizations could soon become inaccessible forever. Archaeologists have to move fast, so they’re turning ...