Name: Babylonian Map of the World ("Imago Mundi" in Latin) What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient ...

2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably from Babylon. Photo ... it depicts a circular map of the world alongside a text which researchers believe offers a Mesopotamian account of the ...