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  2. Babylonian Map of the World - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. File:Hammurabi's Babylonia 1.svg - Wikipedia

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    A locator map of Hammurabi's Babylonia, showing the Babylonian territory upon his ascension in 1792 BC and upon his death in 1750 BC. The river courses and coastline are those of that time period -- in general, they are not the modern rivers or coastlines. This is a Mercator projection, with north in its usual position

  4. Babylon - Wikipedia

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    The town became part of a small independent city-state with the rise of the first Babylonian Empire, now known as the Old Babylonian Empire, in the 17th century BC. The Amorite king Hammurabi founded the short-lived Old Babylonian Empire in the 16th century BC. He built Babylon into a major city and declared himself its king.

  5. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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    Clay tablet with map of the Babylonian city of Nippur (c. 1400 BC) Maps in Ancient Babylonia were made by using accurate surveying techniques. [12] 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.

  6. Babylonia - Wikipedia

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    Babylonia briefly became the major power in the region after Hammurabi (fl. c. 1792 –1752 BC middle chronology, or c. 1696 –1654 BC, short chronology) created a short-lived empire, succeeding the earlier Akkadian Empire, Third Dynasty of Ur, and Old Assyrian Empire. The Babylonian Empire rapidly fell apart after the death of Hammurabi and ...

  7. Cosmology in the ancient Near East - Wikipedia

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    Babylonian Map of the World. The ancient near eastern earth was a single-continent disk resting on a body of water [6] [7] sometimes compared to a raft. [58] An aerial view of the cosmography of the earth is pictorially elucidated by the Babylonian Map of the World. Here, the city Babylon is near the Earth's center and it is on the Euphrates ...

  8. Neo-Babylonian Empire - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Old Babylonian Empire under Hammurabi (r. c. 1792–1750 BC). Babylonia was founded as an independent state by an Amorite chieftain named Sumu-abum c. 1894 BC.

  9. File:Kassite Babylonia EN.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: A map of the Babylonian Empire during the time of the Kassites, roughly the 13th century BC. This map shows the probable river courses and coastline at that time. This map shows the probable river courses and coastline at that time.