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A clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions in Akkadian, dated to the 9th or 8th century BC. The map shows Mesopotamia and its neighbors, surrounded by a circular "bitter river" or Ocean, and includes a text about the creation of the world by Marduk.
The Babylonian Map of the World is the oldest known world map. It shows Babylon in the center and several known regions surrounded by the ocean. Outlying regions are depicted in triangles surrounding the ocean. The inscriptions on the tablet record aspects of Babylonian cosmology.
26 kwi 2012 · A unique ancient map of the Mesopotamian world from about 700-500 BCE, showing Babylon, Assyria, Elam and other places. The map also has a cuneiform inscription describing the mythological regions and creatures beyond the Salt-Sea.
Babylonian Map of the World. Within this ancient cartographic masterpiece, Babylon occupies a prominent position north of the center, with parallel lines portraying the southern marshes and a curved line representing the Zagros Mountains from the north-northeast.
The Babylonian map of the world is the oldest map of the world, in the world. Written and inscribed on clay in Mesopotamia around 2,900-years-ago, it is, lik...
9 lis 2024 · The Babylonian Mappa mundi or world map (British Museum 92687), a diagrammatic labeled depiction of the world, was probably created between 700 and 500 BCE, in Sippar, southern iraq, where it was discovered. It was first published in 1899.
10 wrz 2015 · According to the Babylonian view, this map represents the entire world known to them. The tablet contains both a cuneiform inscription and a unique map of the Mesopotamian world at the time of Sargon (2300 BC) as a circle surrounded by water, with Babylon at its center.
