The American Journal of Archaeology and ... The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts Vol. 3, No. 1/2, Jun., 1887 Notes on Oriental Antiquities. IV. The R... Notes on ...

T he “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a ...

The map was a clay tablet that was created somewhere between 2,600 to 2,900 years ago. During that time, the Neo-Babylonian Empire was leading the advances in architecture, science, and mathematics.

In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ancient clay tablets revealed that Babylonian astronomers were more sophisticated than ...