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.

Mesopotamia, which is modern-day Iraq is being depicted on the map. It also shows Mesopotamia being surrounded by a double ring dubbed the “Bitter River”. This river is known to have marked ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's possible that because ancient Egypt captures more interest among the modern public than other ancient places in the Middle East, people's general knowledge about Mesopotamia and Babylon gets ...