{"id":1833408,"date":"2024-08-03T16:53:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T20:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1833408"},"modified":"2024-09-06T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T14:58:31","slug":"the-babylonian-map-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/08\/the-babylonian-map-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Babylonian Map of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Babylonian Map of the World with Irving Finkel | Curator\u2019s Corner S9 Ep5\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LUxFzh8r384?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The British Museum has posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LUxFzh8r384\">this video about the Babylonian Map of the World<\/a>, a nearly 3,000-year-old clay tablet inscribed with Akkadian script and a schematic map that is often called the oldest map in the world. The video, part of the Museum\u2019s Curator\u2019s Corner series, focuses on the discovery in 1995 of a missing section of the tablet, and what the inscriptions mean. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/collection\/object\/W_1882-0714-509\">Here\u2019s the Museum\u2019s collection listing<\/a> for the tablet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/02\/ancient-map-of-the-mesopotamian-world\/\">An Ancient Map of the Mesopotamian World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Museum has posted this video about the Babylonian Map of the World, a nearly 3,000-year-old clay tablet inscribed with Akkadian script and a schematic map that is often called the oldest map in&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/08\/the-babylonian-map-of-the-world\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[966,965,964],"class_list":["post-1833408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-babylon","tag-cuneiform","tag-mesopotamia","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5303,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/02\/ancient-map-of-the-mesopotamian-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833408,"position":0},"title":"An Ancient Map of the Mesopotamian World","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 February 2012","format":"link","excerpt":"I've encountered plenty of claims for something to be the \"world's oldest map\" (most of which depend on how broad or narrow your definition of \"map\" is). One I wasn't aware of until recently is this Mesopotamian map on a cuneiform tablet, which dates from between 700 and 500 BC,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1842708,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/06\/the-ocean-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833408,"position":1},"title":"The Ocean Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"13 June 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London has a new attraction. \u201cThe Ocean Map\u00a0is a giant, 440m2\u00a0floor map that turns our view of the world inside out. While most world maps focus on countries and continents, the Ocean Map is all about\u00a0water.\u201d You can probably see where this is going:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Oceans&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Oceans","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/oceans\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1834360,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/10\/the-truth-about-harry-beck-a-play-about-the-tube-maps-creator\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833408,"position":2},"title":"The Truth About Harry Beck: A Play About the Tube Map&#8217;s Creator","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 October 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"The Truth About Harry Beck, a play about the designer of London\u2019s iconic Tube map, is at the London Transport Museum\u2019s Cubic Theatre through January. Writer and director Andy Burden spent years working on the play. So far reviews have been mostly positive: Theatre Vibe\u2019s Lizzie Loveridge found it \u201ccharming,\u201d\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Transit&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Transit","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/transit\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/the-truth-about-harry-beck.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/the-truth-about-harry-beck.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/the-truth-about-harry-beck.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/the-truth-about-harry-beck.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/the-truth-about-harry-beck.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/the-truth-about-harry-beck.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1717,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/the-wsj-reviews-china-at-the-center\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833408,"position":3},"title":"The WSJ Reviews China at the Center","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"23 April 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Here's a review in the\u00a0Wall Street Journal of the Asian Art Museum's exhibition,\u00a0China at the Center, which I've told you about before. The show includes portraits of both as well as a half-dozen books to evoke the libraries each brought and the impact they had. 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