Researchers unlock the secrets of the Babylonian Imago Mundi tablet, the oldest map of the world, revealing stuff in some ...

The Seleucid Empire was one of the successor states that emerged after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC.

The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring — which the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river,” a river that created the borders around the Babylonians’ known world.

Reading the Babylonian relic, which includes a circular map accompanied by text in the ancient style of cuneiform which used wedge-shaped symbols, has unlocked an array of secrets.

Researchers have finally decoded a Babylonian tablet thought to be the oldest map of the world ... river - the Euphrates - that cut through ancient Mesopotamia from North to South, connecting ...

This is a painting that dates back thousands of years to Ancient Egypt. Artworks like this tell ... Using all of their senses as a source of inspiration. Map work – Using a base map of the ...

The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a ...

The mirrors of ancient Egypt have been the subject of great attention for their cultural importance and their connection to ...

Archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam discovered the Babylonian tablet in 1882. For over a hundred years, it remained undeciphered.

The map depicts ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), surrounded by a double ring dubbed the “Bitter River,” which marked the borders of the known world at the time. In a video released by ...

The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring, which the ancient scribe called the “bitter river.” Credit: Kevan, CC BY 2.0 Archeologists have deciphered the world’s oldest map in a Babylonian ...