Researchers are shedding light on an ancient Babylonian tablet known as the oldest map of the world. The map was likely ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

Reading the Babylonian relic, which includes a circular map accompanied by text in the ancient style of cuneiform which used ...

The cuneiform script used on the tablet is one of the oldest known writing systems, originally developed by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia. Akkadian, the language in which the tablet is written ...

Dr Irving Finkelm, British Museum researcher, said in a video on its YouTube channel: "The double ring is very important because it has cuneiform writing in it which says 'bitter river' and this ...

Researchers have successfully decoded the Imago Mundi, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet considered the oldest known map of the world. The artefact, created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago, offers ...

To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Small square shaped clay tablet with cuneiform writing. The tablet is inscribed on obverse and reverse with text ...

To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Small square clay tablet with cuneiform writing. Both obverse and reverse surfaces and left edge are densely ...