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Oldest map of the world on nearly 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet deciphered to reveal surprisingly familiar storyThe 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.
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Ancient Babylonian Map steals the spotlight! This is how the world has been mapped throughout historyHailing from the venerable city of Abu Habba (modern-day Sippar) in Iraq, this clay tablet, dating to the sixth century B.C., stands as the earliest known map of the ancient world.
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