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The Babylonian Map of the World or the Imago Mundi is the oldest known world map ever discovered. The map dates to sometime in the 6 th century BCE and was created by the Babylonians and shows how they viewed both the physical and spiritual world at the time.
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Imago Mundi Babylonian map, the oldest known world map, 6th century BC Babylonia. Now in the British Museum. A Babylonian world map, known as the Imago Mundi, is commonly dated to the 6th century BCE. [5]
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Sep 9, 2024 · What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world. Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city in what is now Iraq. When it was made:...
Jul 18, 2017 · More commonly known as the Babylonian Map of the World, the Imago Mundi is considered the oldest surviving world map. It is currently on display at the British Museum in London. It dates back...
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.
Sep 11, 2024 · Indeed, as the always entertaining British Museum curator Irving Finkel details, the ancient Babylonian tablet, which was created circa the 6th century BCE, is the ‘oldest map of the world, in the world’.
