The world's oldest known map, dating back over 3,000 years, has been discovered in the France, offering a rare glimpse into ...
Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point.
Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin) What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of ...
The journalist-editor explains how special economic zones, tax havens, and free ports are carving up the planet for the ...
The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the ...