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 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 ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window ... Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world map, carved into clay over 2,600 years ago, combines geography ...

Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map — and they believe it may ... Mundi by scientists who say it shows ancient Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, surrounded by “Bitter River ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

Mesopotamia refers to a broad area that can ... While the ancient Babylonians believed that Eridu was the first city on the planet, modern-day archaeologists are not so sure.

But they are the ubiquitous arteries that take our modern, mechanically horse-powered ... to see exactly how the first streets in ancient Mesopotamia came into existence and how the original ...