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Should We Rearrange the World’s Borders According to Nature?
How would we decide the boundaries? In this video, we explore who drew the first lines on a map and said “Everything within them is ours”. And why rearranging the world’s borders according to nature could help us solve many … Continue reading
The Babylonian Map of the World with Irving Finkel | Curator’s Corner S9 Ep5
The Babylonian map of the world is the oldest map of the world, in the world. Written and inscribed on clay in Mesopotamia around 2,900-years-ago, it is, like so many cuneiform tablets, incomplete. However, Irving Finkel and a particularly gifted … Continue reading
Explore the Oldest Existing World Map, Carved in Clay 2,600 Years Ago | My Modern Met
By Madeleine Muzdakis on July 13, 2024 Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0 Researchers have been able to decode the text and the meaning of the map’s symbols, which are accompanied by text. How a … Continue reading