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 ...

In the cramped confines of a small cavern to the south of Paris, scientists have 'read between the lines' on the floor and discovered what could be the oldest surviving three-dimensional map of a ...

Hopefully, however, his course papers present a better assessment of facts. "The world's oldest known map" has fortunately not been missing for years, but has been and is safely housed in the ...