A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window ... Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world map, carved into clay over 2,600 years ago, combines geography ...

There was an additional river - the Euphrates - that cut through ancient Mesopotamia ... the limits of the world where they lived in about the sixth century.' Within the map are cuneiform ...

The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring — which the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river,” a river that created the borders around the Babylonians’ known world.

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

Clay bricks from the building projects of ancient kings recorded a historical “map” of changes in the ... the development of ancient Mesopotamia. In the territories anchored by the fertile ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest ... preserving the ancient landscape unlike elsewhere in Mesopotamia where older irrigation systems were ...

The discoveries shed new light on life in ancient Mesopotamia ... inhabited since 4800 B.C.E. when Mesopotamia was home to the Sumerians – one of the world’s first major civilizations.

Their world was Mesopotamia ... The legendary Adapa lived before the ancient flood that, according to Babylonian myth, had devastated the cities of Mesopotamia. Despite Adapa’s omniscience ...