The map is listed on Unesco’s Memory of the World Register and described as ‘the only complete example of a large medieval world map intended for public display’. In many ways, it serves as ...

Now, you can zoom around this huge, detailed map of the ancient world labeled with cities from all sorts of archaeological records, classical text references and European imagery ...

The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring — which the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river,” a river that created the borders around the Babylonians’ known world.

A World of Obelisks ... Click on the labeled map below to view and review the world's 12 mightiest standing monoliths. Luxor | Cairo ...

The map was surely not intended for wayfinding, as we might use a map today. It is believed to be a mythological interpretation of the world, or as much of it as was known to the Babylonians.