A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

The "oldest map of the world in the world" on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to the British Museum's Irving Finkel.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo. Life // Blog Critics. Book Review: The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler/Map of Babylon by John Gossage ...

GET LOST The Map Shop, in Charlotte, N.C., ... IN THE 1880s, Iraqi archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam found a small carved tablet with an image of Babylon at its center, ...