Only through the efforts of researchers from the British Museum was the knowledge inscribed on it unraveled. The map depicts Mesopotamia at the center, surrounded by two rings symbolizing water.

according to a recent video published by the British Museum. The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the ...

The British Museum The carvings have been called the Imago Mundi by scientists who say it shows ancient Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, surrounded by “Bitter River,” a double ring marking ...

Photograph by BRITISH MUSEUM/SCALA, FLORENCE The discovery ... Scholarly and public fascination with the ancient culture of Mesopotamia had been steadily growing since the latter part of the ...

Photograph by BRITISH MUSEUM/SCALA, Florence From then on ... Many of her new works, such as 1936’s Murder in Mesopotamia and 1937’s Death on the Nile, were colored by her new experiences ...

Dr Evans, a senior lecturer in diaspora history, said antiquities from the British Museum showed how ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and India all adopted the gesture for ...

The British Museum recovered more than 350 ancient artifacts ... They were invented in Mesopotamia, but it’s the ancient Greeks who make them into their own art form, and because the Greeks ...