The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

With Iraq currently in the world's spotlight, trace its beginnings in Mesopotamia - its name in ancient times. Mesopotamia has been called the 'cradle of civilisation' because agriculture, animal ...

The map depicted Mesopotamia - or the land 'between the ... an ancient Babylonian city in present-day Iraq. Although Rassam discovered the tablet nearly 150 years ago, the Imago Mundi remained ...

FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers ... What is somewhat surprising, though, is that a map of the area was produced at all. Landholdings in Mesopotamia were typically described rather ...

It describes Mesopotamia, the "land between the rivers" of the Tigris and Euphrates, which was the heart of the known world ...

The map depicts ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), surrounded by a double ring dubbed the “Bitter River,” which marked the borders of the known world at the time. In a video released by ...

Archaeologists working at a long-buried city in northern Iraq have unearthed clues that could rewrite part of Mesopotamia’s ... Related Stories ・Ancient map reveals the known world from ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present ... a remote sensing survey to map the Darb Zubaydah, a pilgrimage route from Iraq's Kufa to Mecca in Saudi Arabia built more ...

Mesopotamia refers to a broad area that can include all of Iraq, eastern Syria, southeast Turkey, parts of western Iran and Kuwait. The word "Mesopotamia," is an ancient Greek name that is ...