"Babylon" is marked on only one end of the Euphrates, even though it occupied both banks for most of its history. Above the map is a block of text describing the creation of the world by Marduk ...

I n a revelation that bridges millennia, the Babylonian Map of the World, or "Imago Mundi," has emerged as a dazzling relic of ancient geography. Hailing from the venerable city of Abu Habba ...

the Babylonian Map of the World. A clay tablet created around 700 to 500 B.C. in Mesopotamia, it depicts a circular Babylon at the center, bisected by the Euphrates River and surrounded by the ocean.

Photograph by Granger Collection/Age Fotostock Babylon was ... Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to many of the world’s first great ...