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The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
Clay tablet with map of the Babylonian city of Nippur (c. 1400 BC) Maps in Ancient Babylonia were made by using accurate surveying techniques. [14] For example, a 7.6 × 6.8 cm clay tablet found in 1930 at Ga-Sur, near contemporary Kirkuk, shows a map of a river valley between two hills.
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia.
English: Babylonian Map of the World, 700-500 BC Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC Gallery, British Museum, London, England, UK. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
Early Chinese cartography. Da Ming Hunyi Tu (late 14th century Ming dynasty Chinese map) Maps of Russia. Godunov map (1667) Maps of Scandinavia. Carta marina (c. 1530) Det Kongelige danske Søkortarkiv (1784) French cartography: Cassini maps (1756–1789) Cartography of India. Survey of India (1767) Great Trigonometrical Survey (1802–1858 ...
A Babylonian world map, known as the Imago Mundi, is commonly dated to the 6th century BCE. [5] The map as reconstructed by Eckhard Unger shows Babylon on the Euphrates , surrounded by a circular landmass including Assyria , Urartu ( Armenia ) [ 6 ] and several cities, in turn surrounded by a "bitter river" ( Oceanus ), with eight outlying ...
Imago Mundi (/ i ˈ m ɑː ɡ oʊ ˈ m uː n d i / ee-MAH-goh MOON-dee), or in full Imago Mundi: International Journal for the History of Cartography, is a semiannual peer-reviewed academic journal about mapping, established in 1935 by Leo Bagrow. [1] [2] It covers the history of early maps, cartography, and map-related ideas.
Cartography (/ k ɑːr ... and an engraved map of the holy Babylonian city of Nippur, from the Kassite period (14th – 12th centuries BCE). [6] ...