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 world ...
Researchers think they have found a depiction of Noah’s Ark on the 3,000-year-old Babylonian Map of the World. Also known as the Imago Mundi, the clay tablet has baffled archaeologists for over a ...
The patterned cuneiform tablet was discovered in the Middle East before being acquired by the British Museum in 1882. Ever since it was found people have tried to figure out what the map-like symbols ...
Researchers have finally decoded a Babylonian tablet thought to be the oldest map of the world. Created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago, the Imago Mundi provided researchers with a unique glimpse ...
The ancient clay tablet also reveals many unknowns about the Babylonians including mythical creatures and mystical lands A CLEVER team of scientists have managed to decipher the world’s oldest map and ...