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may 18, 499 BC - Earliest known map usage(Babylon)

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The oldest known world map is the Babylonian Map of the World known as the Imago Mundi. This map dates back to the 5th century BCE. This map, found in southern Iraq in a city called Sippar, shows a small bit of the known world as the Babylonians knew it centuries ago. This map was formed out of a clay tablet and was found north of the ancient city of Babylon, on the fertile east bank of the Euphrates River.

This map shows the Babylonian perspective of the earth and the heavens through the eyes of the Babylonians themselves, putting the city of Babylon in the center of the map. Much like other civilizations have done with Athens or Jerusalem, Babylon was put at the center because it was the center of life for the thousands of people that lived there- this was the only perspective they had without the uses of modern day technologies like satellites, map making tools and reliable long distance transportation. Their perspective and ideas about the world around them can be seen through this tiny tablet, incomplete as it may be.

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Date:

may 18, 499 BC
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~ 2525 years ago
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