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How researchers finally solved the puzzle of the oldest known map of the world | Aeon Videos

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The ancient Babylonian tablet was created circa the 6th century BCE , and is the oldest map of the world, in the world.

Curator Irving Finkel explains how, like many early maps, the tablet integrated both practical information about the world as the ancient Babylonians understood it, and mythology.

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60

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59

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8

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formal

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English

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87

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long-living

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