3/9/2024 0 Comments Ancient maps of the flat earth![]() Cuneiform script labels all locations inside the circular map, as well as a few regions outside. The map is circular with two outer defined circles. The map Babylonian Map of the World, 700-500 BC Systematic differences between the texts suggest that the tablet may have been compiled from three separate documents. It is not clear whether all three parts should be read as a single whole. ![]() The tablet consists of three parts: the world map, a text above the map, and a text on the back side of the tablet. In 1995 a new join to the tablet was discovered, at the point of the upper-most nagu. The tablet is usually thought to have originated in Borsippa. ![]() It was acquired by the British Museum in 1882 (BM 92687) the text was first translated in 1889. The tablet was excavated by Hormuzd Rassam at Sippar, Baghdad vilayet, some 60 km north of Babylon on the east bank of the Euphrates River. It has been suggested that the depiction of these "regions" as triangles might indicate that they were imagined as mountains. Mesopotamia is surrounded by a circular "bitter river" or Ocean, and seven or eight "regions", depicted as triangular sections, are shown as lying beyond the Ocean. Susa, the capital of Elam, is shown to the south, Urartu to the northeast, and Habban, the capital of the Kassites is shown (incorrectly) to the northwest. The mouth of the Euphrates is labelled "swamp" and "outflow". The city of Babylon is shown on the Euphrates, in the northern half of the map. ![]() The map is centered on the Euphrates, flowing from the north (top) to the south (bottom). Ever since its discovery there have been a variety of divergent views on what it represents in general and about specific features in particular. The tablet describes the oldest known depiction of the known world. ![]() Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description. The Babylonian Map of the World (or Imago Mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet ![]()
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