A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately the ...

British Museum curator Dr. Irving Finkel held up a cuneiform tablet and said that this piece of clay contained the oldest map of the world. In marveling over this piece, he recalled how one of his ...

Hopefully, however, his course papers present a better assessment of facts. "The world's oldest known map" has fortunately not been missing for years, but has been and is safely housed in the ...