Babylonian Map of the World Includes “Ark” Story Linked to Noah’s Ark
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Babylonian%20Map.jpg?itok=FI9hgpm6"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Babylonian%20Map.jpg?itok=FI9hgpm6" width="610" height="381" alt="The Babylonian Map of the World, or Imago Mundi tablet." /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>A 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet known as the Imago Mundi, or the “Babylonian Map of the World,” recently led British Museum researchers to an astonishing find: a reference to a Great Flood story that parallels the Biblical account of Noah’s Ark.</p>
<p>Originally unearthed in 1882 in Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city near present-day Baghdad, Iraq, this unique clay tablet has challenged archaeologists and scholars for over a century. However, a recent breakthrough in the deciphering of the
cuneiform script on the tablet's back has uncovered new details that connect ancient
Babylonian beliefs with flood narratives familiar to many around the world.</p>
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<h2>A Map of Babylonian Cosmology</h2>
<p>This remarkable tablet, barely larger than a hand, features the oldest known map of the world.</p>
<p>“If you look carefully,” explains Dr. Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum in a <a href="
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUxFzh8r384&t=1s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">British Museum video[/url], “you will see that the flat surface of the clay has a double circle drawn...with cuneiform writing in it which says it's the 'Bitter River’.”</p>
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