the museum unveiled one such amazing piece of history—“the oldest map of the world in the world.” Explained by philologist, assyriologist, and curator in the museum's Middle East department ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

The “oldest ... map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time. The ancient artifact, discovered in the Middle ...