World News Oldest map of the world on nearly 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet deciphered to reveal surprisingly familiar story By Allie Griffin Published Sep. 11, 2024, 10:23 p.m. ET ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian ...

Human Behavior World's oldest complete star map, lost for millennia, found inside medieval manuscript News By Ben Turner last updated 21 October 2022 ...

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, c. 510-c. 500 BC. Found in the collection of British Museum. Artist: Assyrian Art. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images) ...

The image was also shared on Reddit that same day. The Facebook post's caption read: "The first world map ever, created by Anaximander of Miletus (610 BC–546 BC), a Greek philosopher." ...

The Babylonian Map of the World was found in a box related to Rassam’s 1881 excavation at Sippar in present-day Iraq around 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of modern Baghdad.