If you stop by TBTP on a regular basis, you are likely aware that I am a bit of a map geek. It all began with a small globe on my childhood nightstand. I don't discriminate when it comes to cartography and maps. Give me an old fashioned gas station folding paper map or a handy Waze map to drive by; I like them all. So it will come as no surprise that I loved the video below from the British Museum's best social media resource Irving Finkel.
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 student of his - Edith Horsley - managed to locate a missing piece of the map, slot it back into the cuneiform tablet, and from there set us all on journey through the somewhat mythical landscape of Mesopotamia to find the final resting place of the ark. And yes we mean that ark, as in Noah's ark. Although in the earlier Mesopotamian version of the flood story, the ark is built by Ziusudra, not Noah.
H/T to TBTP's most loyal subscriber, Bonnie B.
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