It dated back 3,000 years and contained a map of Mesopotamia that included Babylon, the Euphrates River, and other cities and landmarks. They called it the Imago Mundi.

Along with the Tigris River, it makes up the cradle of civilization, known as the Fertile Crescent. The river was critical to the development of some of the world’s first agricultural societies like ...

The "oldest map of the world in the world" on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, ... and another rectangle represents the Euphrates River.