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Babylonian Map of the World: The oldest known map of the ancient world
Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin) What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of ...
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Noah’s Ark Shown on Ancient Babylonian Map
Archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam discovered the tablet in 1882 in Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city in present-day Iraq ... The tiny tablet has cuneiform on both sides and a map of sorts etched into it.