The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to a recent video published by ...

Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to T ...

Imago Mundi, also known as the “Babylonian Map of the World,” is often said to be the oldest map of the known world ever found. Granted, it isn’t as scientifically accurate as Google Maps ...

which Hipparchus used to create the first known star catalog, is still used by scientists to map objects in the sky. Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view ...

Here’s how it works. Scholars may have just discovered a fragment of the world's oldest complete star map. The map segment, which was found beneath the text on a sheet of medieval parchment ...

NEWLY discovered stone disks found in Italy may have been the earliest maps of the sky. The stones date back thousands of years before the constellations we know today. They were unearthed near an ...

More than 2,100 years ago, Greek astronomer Hipparchus mapped out the stars -- and for a long time, his document had been considered humanity's earliest ... attempt to map the night sky through ...

Scholars have discovered part of the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus’s long-lost star catalogue of the—believed to be the first map of the ... around the world that would benefit from ...