Although its scientific accuracy cannot compare to today’s tools like Google Maps, it provides unique insights into how ancient Babylonians viewed themselves and the world around them.

Although it may not be entirely accurate, it offers a glimpse into how ancient Babylonians viewed the world around them. The map was a clay tablet that was created somewhere between 2,600 to 2,900 ...

The spread of the cult of Marduk across Mesopotamia was proof of Babylon’s prestige. No ancient city was so desired and feared, so admired and denigrated. But in the Hebrew tradition ...

The Babylonian map known as the Imago Mundi, holds the title of the oldest known map in the world and shows the world as the ancient Babylonians knew it, with Babylon at its center. Discovered ...

Persian rule left Babylon with most of its institutions intact, it became one of the richest satrapies of the empire, and it became one of the world’s most magnificent cities, according to Greek ...

Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy, who lived in Egypt, built upon Babylonian knowledge in his geocentric model of the universe. This model, which placed the Earth at the center of the universe, ...

Those learning and using mathematics have long consulted tables of numbers. The ancient Babylonians used clay tablets for this purpose. Papyrus, parchment, and paper all proved suitable for recording ...