The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

The map also showcased Mesopotamia, the land of the rivers, and a historical area of the Middle East. Mesopotamia at that time was thought to be the entire ‘known world’. The map also ...

unlike other parts of Mesopotamia where older irrigation systems were buried beneath newer canals or river sediments. By combining geological maps, satellite imagery, drone photography and ...