- It was actually carved in clay and preserved 2,600 years ago in what is now known as The Babylonian Map of the World or Imago Mundi.
- Nate Loper #ArizonaGuide - Babylonian Map Of The World Tablet - Imago Mundi - Download Free 3D model by Nate Loper(@arizonaguide).
- The Babylonian Map of the World is a dramatic labeled depiction of the known world from the perspective of Babylonia. ... British Museum - Map of the World.
- The babylonian map of the world is the earliest known map of the world and its currently on display at the british museum in london.
- Carlo Zaccagnini has argued that the design of the Babylonian map of the world may have lived on in the T and O map of the European Middle Ages.
- The tablet was in fact perhaps the oldest known world map, offering one of the few opportunities to glimpse the world view of Babylonian Civilisation[1].
- It depicts a flat, round world, with Babylon at the center (see the British Museum for a detailed translation and commentary of the map’s legend).
- It is dated to 700–500 BC. And is now in the British Museum (cat.-no. 92687). ... Wayne Horowitz: The Babylonian Map of the World.
- Babylonian Map of the World, also known as Imago Mundi, is the oldest tablet clay map written in Akkadian. It dates back to 6th Century BC.
- The location of Babylon on the map shows that the Babylonians believed themselves to be the center of the world. ... Map of the World – The British Museum.