At the world's center sits the Euphrates River and the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon. Labels written in cuneiform, an ancient text, note each location on the map, according to The British ...

The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the ... an ancient city north of Babylon along the Euphrates River. Despite its age, this artifact preserves a sophisticated ...

The research team found that the canals irrigated more than 700 farms in the region, which was inhabited between the sixth until the early first millennium B.C. Fed by the Euphrates River ...