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The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a Logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
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.
Depiction of Noah's ark landing on the "mountains of Ararat", from the North French Hebrew Miscellany (13th century). In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew הָרֵי אֲרָרָט , Tiberian hārê ’Ǎrārāṭ, Septuagint: τὰ ὄρη τὰ Ἀραράτ) [1] is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood. [2]
A map of Babylon, with major areas and modern-day villages. The spelling Babylon is the Latin representation of Greek Babylṓn (Βαβυλών), derived from the native Bābilim, meaning "gate of the god(s)". [15] The cuneiform spelling was 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (KÁ.DIG̃IR.RA KI). This would correspond to the Sumerian phrase Kan dig̃irak. [16]
Mount Ararat is depicted along with the ark on its peak on the shield on an orange background. [166] The emblem of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (Soviet Armenia) was created by the painters Martiros Saryan and Hakob Kojoyan in 1921. [167] Mount Ararat is depicted in the center and makes up a large portion of it. [168]
In 2009 the Deputy Keeper of the Middle East at the British Museum, Irving Finkel, made a study of a cuneiform tablet from 1750 BCE that contained a flood narrative similar to that of the story of Noah's Ark.
The name Ararat was translated as Armenia in the 1st century AD in historiographical works [37] and very early Latin translations of the Bible, [38] as well as the Books of Kings [39] and Isaiah in the Septuagint. Some English language translations, including the King James Version, [40] follow the Septuagint translation of Ararat as Armenia. [41]
Babylon would then come to dominate Mesopotamia for over a thousand years. [15] Zimri-Lim, king of the nearby polity of Mari, plays a significant role for modern historians. He contributed immense amounts of historical writing that describe the history and diplomacy of the first Babylonian dynasty during Hammurabi's reign.