Besides positioning Mesopotamia, the tablet contains descriptions ... Imago Mundi is an ancient map which not only opens the door to understanding Babylonian cosmology and geography but also ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring — which the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river,” a river that created the borders around the Babylonians’ known world.