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.
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:52 Ancient Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablets
- 01:48 The oldest map of the world, in the world
- 02:07 What is the Babylonian Map of the World?
- 02:34 The Babylonian Map of the World explained
- 04:13 What are the triangles on the Babylonian Map of the World?
- 06:17 Missing triangle on the Babylonian Map of the World
- 06:52 Edith Horsley - Cuneiform LEGEND
- 07:20 Channel 4 News report on Babylonian Map of the World September 1995
- 08:32 BABY IRVING!
- 09:48 What the missing piece revealed
- 11:39 The ark and parsiktu-vessel
- 13:22 Mount Ararat and Mount Urartu
- 14:18 What does it all mean?
- 15:07 Author of Babylonian Map of the World
