Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ...

The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world. Carved onto a clay tablet around the 5th century BCE, it was uncovered in ...

also known as "Imago Mundi," is a significant clay tablet representing the oldest known map of the ancient world. This artefact originates from Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city ...

The tablet shows a circular world map with the ancient city ... s oldest form of writing, predating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics—on both sides of the clay. Before damage, the tablet showed ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, the world’s oldest empire. Marked with the administrative details of ...

One of the great enigmas of modern archaeology has created an ongoing debate among scholars who argue about the function and meaning of an ancient clay disk ... Atlantis, a map of the Minotaur ...

The tablet has several paragraphs of the cuneiform on its backside and above the map diagram describing the creation of the Earth and what existed beyond it. The clay tablet was discovered in the ...

University of Central Florida, courtesy of Tiffany Earley-Spadoni An ancient game board, building remains and three clay tablets recently discovered by archaeologists in northeastern Iraq provide ...

who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death, it was ransacked and burned to the ground. Luckily, the texts were written on clay tablets, and so were baked and preserved ...