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 ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with Babylon at its center and surrounded by water ...

The resting place of Noah’s Ark—a ship said in the Bible to have saved two of every animal during an ancient Great Flood sent by God to flush evil out of the world—may have been located ...

Ever since it was found people have tried to figure out what the map-like symbols etched onto ... Based on other ancient Babylonian scriptures the word parsiktu typically helps to explain the ...

Van Loo lived from 1614-70. (Courtesy Photo) The Babylonian Exile was a very painful period in Jewish history in which King Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple and moved 20,000 ...

He called the Babylonian exile the “most important event in the history of the Jewish people.” Each document catalogs when and where it was written and by whom, providing scholars with an ...

The exact rations Samak-Yama received – and many other minutiae of everyday life of the first generations of the Judean Babylonian exile – have been remarkably preserved in more than 100 ...

Clay bricks from the building projects of ancient kings recorded a historical “map” of changes in the ... the bricks of cities throughout Iron Age Babylonia. The findings published in ...