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 ...

British Museum curator Dr. Irving Finkel held up a cuneiform tablet and said that this piece of clay contained the oldest map of the world. In marveling over this piece, he recalled how one of his ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

Fischer began examining the first map in the folio. Its title, running in block letters across the bottom of the map, read, THE WHOLE WORLD ACCORDING TO THE TRADITION OF PTOLEMY AND THE VOYAGES OF ...

Van Duzer’s new book, The World for a King, reproduces the map in the original colors and at full scale—in 42 sections—for the first time. His research found that Desceliers took most of his ...

Created a year or two before Cantino’s map, the earliest known depiction of the New World was made by Juan de la Cosa, a colleague of Christopher Columbus. Both maps reveal the great challenge ...

It was made in 1815 by William Smith and is the first map of the mineral world beneath the soil. This week's book, by Simon Winchester, tells of the making of a map that brought wealth to many ...

The introduction of writing systems changed the world. It allowed humans to physically express thoughts and language, as well as record events for future generations to study. Although different ...