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The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period .
The Babylonian Map of the World or the Imago Mundi is the oldest known world map ever discovered. The map dates to sometime in the 6 th century BCE and was created by the Babylonians and shows how they viewed both the physical and spiritual world at the time.
The Turin Papyrus Map is widely considered the oldest existing topographical map from the ancient world. The map was created around 1160 BCE and due to diligent ancient Egyptian record keeping, researchers know who drew the map and what it was for.
The Cantino world map is the earliest acknowledged image of the Americas. World map includes a body of water to the north of Cuba, inside a landmass, an image of the undiscovered Gulf of Mexico. This only cartographic work made by a witness of the first journeys of Christopher Columbus to the Indies that have been preserved.
The oldest surviving world map is the Babylonian Map of the World, also known as the ‘Imago Mundi’. It is a clay tablet dated to 700-500 BCE that depicts the world as a circular disc with Babylon at the center.
Babylonian Map of the World, clay tablet produced between the late 8th and 6th centuries bce that depicts the oldest known map of the ancient world. Acquired by the British Museum in 1882 and translated in 1889, this tablet depicts a map of known and unknown regions of the ancient Mesopotamian world.
History’s earliest known world map was scratched on clay tablets in the ancient city of Babylon sometime around 600 B.C. The star-shaped map measures just five-by-three inches and shows the...
The ancient map offers a glimpse of how the Babylonians viewed the world thousands of years ago.
Map - Ancient World, Geography, Cartography: The earliest specimens thus far discovered that are indisputably portrayals of land features are the Babylonian tablets previously mentioned; certain land drawings found in Egypt and paintings discovered in early tombs are nearly as old.
The earliest known attempt to show the Earth in its entirety was the Imago Mundi, or Babylonian map of the world, thought to date to around 600 B.C. The city of Babylon itself figures as a large rectangle, bisected by another rectangle representing the Euphrates River.