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… ...

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 ...

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