Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago. The Imago Mundi (tablet) provided the ...

A CLEVER team of scientists have managed to decipher the world’s oldest map and claim it may show the location of “Noah’s Ark”. The 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet has puzz… ...

THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of w… ...

Ancient Babylonian astronomers were way ... Ancient Babylonians used tricky geometry to map the path of Jupiter 1,400 years ... a study on four clay tablets dating from 350 to 50 BC has ...

NIPPUR MAP TABLET. DATE: ca. 1500 B.C. MATERIAL: Clay. DIMENSIONS: 5 inches by 4.3 inches. FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers of the Babylonian sacred city of Nippur, ready access to water ...

One of four clay tablets dating from 350 to 50 BC featuring the wedge-shaped ancient Babylonian cuneiform script. Credit: Photo: Reuters Ancient Babylonian astronomers were way ahead of their time ...

A CLEVER team of scientists have managed to decipher the world’s oldest map and claim it may show the location of “Noah’s Ark”. The 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet has puzz… ...

THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of w… ...