A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering ... or divine influences on the physical world. The Imago Mundi is more than just a map; it is a reflection of the Babylonian ...

Their map reflects an early effort to ... into Babylonian beliefs and practices, blending physical geography with mythology. It describes Mesopotamia, the "land between the rivers" of the Tigris ...

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.

The map depicted Mesopotamia - or the land 'between the rivers' - a historical area of the Middle East that was thought to be the entire 'known world' at the time. The tablet's map also ...

Historians consider this tablet, roughly 2,500 years old, the earliest existing map of the world. Even “modern” maps look quaint today, when apps like Google Maps put practically every ...