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

The Imago Mundi, or Babylonian Map of the World. Creative Commons More commonly known as the Babylonian Map of the World , the Imago Mundi is considered the oldest surviving world map.

The Imago Mundi is just one of many maps inscribed in the clay tablets of Mesopotamia. It seems to be unique, however, in its scope. “Most ancient clay maps are large-scale representations of small ...

Luciano Benetton's collection "Imago Mundi, Map of the New Art" opened in Venice with a display of 7,000 works by artists from more than 40 countries.

Imago Mundi, better known as the Babylonian Map of the World, which is carved into a clay tablet, does survive today and is more widely considered to have been the first map of the world.

The Imago Mundi continues to captivate scholars since its discovery in Iraq in 1988 and it is currently at the British Museum. Related articles PICS: World's oldest map found ...

Scientists have deciphered the world's oldest map -- and they believe it's led them to the location of Noah's Ark. The 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact has puzzled archaeologists for centuries ...

For his Imago Mundi exhibition, which opens this week in Venice, Luciano Benetton invited 1,000 artists worldwide to create works no larger than a postcard.

The Imago Mundi was first found in what is now Iraq back in 1882. It features cuneiform text, a language only used by the Babylonians, who etched a map of what’s thought to show the entire known ...

The oldest surviving world map is the Babylonian Imago Mundi, which is somewhere between 2500 and 2700 years old, and is carved in stone. In the millennia since then, maps evolved to handwritten ...

The Imago Mundi, also called the Babylonian Map of the World, was discovered in 1882 by renowned archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam in Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city in what is now present-day Iraq.