He was famed for excavating significant Assyrian and Babylonian finds, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest piece of literature in the world. He discovered the map in 1881 during a dig in ...

The secrets held within the Babylonian tablet, considered the world's oldest map ... Interestingly, the map also includes areas outside the center, such as Assyria, Der, and Urartu, which attests ...

To see a quadrant, click below in a box. The British Topographic Maps were made in 1910, and are a valuable source of information about Assyrian villages just prior to the Turkish Genocide and ...