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Oldest map of the world on nearly 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet deciphered to reveal surprisingly familiar story
The tablet has several paragraphs of the cuneiform on its backside and above the map diagram describing the creation of the Earth and what its writer believed existed beyond it. The map shows ...
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World’s oldest map dating back 3,000 years reveals details beyond Babylonian Empire
It also talks about how the Earth looked back in that time and what existed beyond it. Mesopotamia, which is modern-day Iraq is being depicted on the map. It also shows Mesopotamia being ...