The Imago Mundi, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet that’s considered to be the oldest map of the world, contains depictions of the Earth as the ancient Mesopotamians understood it. Created ...

Image by tm-tm, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. (photo credit: FLICKR) Scientists have recently unlocked the secrets of the world's oldest map, a 3,000-year-old clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi ...

Imago Mundi in 2024. (British Museum) In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have deciphered what is believed to be the world's oldest map--a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet that may reveal ...

and two in the 17th century B.C.E. The Imago Mundi is a tablet from Babylon that was discovered in Iraq during the late 19th century. Currently kept at the British Museum under the stewardship of ...

The Imago Mundi, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact, is a clay tablet featuring a writing system using wedge-shaped symbols to describe how Christians believe the world was created. But ...

Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map — and they believe it may lead them to the location of Noah’s Ark. The 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact has puzzled archaeologists for ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian map known as the Imago Mundi, holds the title of the oldest known ...

The Imago Mundi has mystified researchers since it was ... bitter river' that was believed to surround the entire world. The tablet has since been damaged, but once featured eight triangles ...

The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of what Babylonians believed about the known world at the time. The map called Imago Mundi, showing an aerial view of ...

The tablet, called the Imago Mundi, was first unearthed during excavations in Iraq in 1882, and has posed a translation challenge to scientists and linguists for hundreds of years. The tablet ...