The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

The map depicted Mesopotamia - or the land 'between the rivers' - a historical area of the Middle East that was thought to be the entire 'known world' at the time. The tablet's map also ...

The Imago Mundi, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet that’s considered to be the oldest map of the world, contains depictions ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia ... how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world map, carved into ...

This piece of clay contains some of the earliest writing in the world. It's called 'cuneiform ... The oldest known example of writing comes from Mesopotamia and dates to about 3300 BC.