Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin) 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 ...

The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world. Carved onto a clay tablet around the 5th century BCE, it was uncovered in ...

Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the ...

This was one of the most important trade routes in the ancient world, and Troy’s location ... On the interactive map on the home page, the levels are represented by different colors.

What's cooler than maps? Bizarre ancient maps. Oxford University Press recently published "The Oxford Map Companion: One Hundred Sources in World History," edited by UC Irvine historian Patricia Seed.

This was one of the most important trade routes in the ancient world, and Troy’s location ... On the interactive map on the home page, the levels are represented by different colors.