What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

In a revelation that bridges millennia, the Babylonian Map of the World, or "Imago Mundi," has emerged as a dazzling relic of ...

THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of ...

The secret of the clay plate, which was made 3,000 years ago and is known as the world's oldest map, has been revealed to the ...

Historians have decoded inscriptions on an ancient tablet that is believed to be the oldest surviving map of the world. Reading the Babylonian relic, which includes a circular map accompanied by ...

The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring — which the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river,” a river that created the borders around the Babylonians’ known world.

The world map we see today has grown through the efforts of many explorers who have charted new boundaries, continually ...

For many years, the ancient Greeks and Romans were fooled ... need such jealous guarding with elaborate tall tales. But the world’s demand for spices grew throughout the Roman era and into ...

and cheese may also have been used in ancient Egyptian burial rites. Archaeology has never been funkier. Curious about the world? To enjoy our mind-expanding science coverage, sign up to Simply ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years.

Ancient burial practices often included items of significance to the person buried alongside them. The fact that those items included chunks of kefir cheese alongside the body showed that ...