A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

World News: The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with ...

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However, NOAA considers the Babylonian Map of the World as the first known world map, adding that its features show "Babylon itself, the Euphrates river, Assyria, Urartu, and several cities.

Researchers finally deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets — and the messages aren’t about bright hopes for the future but are nearly all death, doom and gloom.

The "oldest map of the world in the world" on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to the British Museum's Irving Finkel.

Week one of Cosmic Quest in which astronomer and writer Heather Couper presents on Radio 4 a major new narrative history of our growing understanding of the universe.