Apr 20
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The Imago Mundi (or Babylonian Map of the World) is a 6th-century BCE Babylonian clay tablet, considered the oldest surviving world map.
Found in Sippar, Iraq, and housed in the British Museum, it depicts a circular world centered on Babylon, the Euphrates River, and a "Bitter River" (ocean) with mythological regions.
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Irving Leonard Finkel (born 1951) is an English philologist and Assyriologist.
He is the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he specialises in cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia.
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