In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been ...

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The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ingenuity. Among these early cartographic marvels, the Babylonian Map of the World ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia ...

Discover the Imago Mundi, the 2,600-year-old Babylonian world map from Sippar, Iraq. Learn how it blends geography, myth & cosmology.

Among these early cartographic marvels, the Babylonian Map of the World stands out as the oldest known map of the ancient world. This fascinating artifact, more than just a geographical representation ...

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The Babylonian map known as the Imago Mundi, holds the title of the oldest known map in the world and shows the world as the ancient Babylonians knew it, with Babylon at its center.

The oldest “passport” of Armenia, in the form of a map, is kept at the British Museum. It depicts the ancient world from the perspective of the once-powerful Babylon. Imago Mundi, or the Babylonian ...