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  2. Babylonian Map of the World - Wikipedia

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    The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.

  3. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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    Clay tablet with map of the Babylonian city of Nippur (c. 1400 BC) Maps in Ancient Babylonia were made by using accurate surveying techniques. [12] For example, a 7.6 × 6.8 cm clay tablet found in 1930 at Ga-Sur, near contemporary Kirkuk, shows a map of a river valley between two hills.

  4. Geology of Florida - Wikipedia

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    In January 1880, Cuba was the center of two strong earthquakes that sent severe shock waves through the city of Key West, Florida. [8] Another earthquake centered outside Florida was the 1886 Charleston earthquake. The shock was felt throughout northern Florida, ringing church bells at St. Augustine and severely jolting other towns along that ...

  5. Knowing all the angles: Ancient Babylonians used tricky ... - AOL

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    That is the finding of a study published on Thursday that analyzed four clay tablets dating from 350 to 50 BC. ... Babylon was an important city in ancient Mesopotamia, located in Iraq about 60 ...

  6. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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    The map as reconstructed by Eckhard Unger shows Babylon on the Euphrates, surrounded by a circular landmass including Assyria, Urartu [6] and several cities, in turn surrounded by a "bitter river" , with eight outlying regions (nagu) arranged around it in the shape of triangles, so as to form a star.

  7. Al-Yahudu Tablets - Wikipedia

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    The Al-Yahudu tablets are a collection of about 200 clay tablets from the sixth and fifth centuries BCE on the exiled Judean community in Babylonia following the destruction of the First Temple. [1] [2] [3] They contain information on the physical condition of the exiles from Judah and their financial condition in Babylon. [4]

  8. Ancient Near Eastern cosmology - Wikipedia

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    Babylonian Map of the World. The ancient near eastern earth was a single-continent disk resting on a body of water [6] [7] sometimes compared to a raft. [58] An aerial view of the cosmography of the earth is pictorially elucidated by the Babylonian Map of the World. Here, the city Babylon is near the Earth's center and it is on the Euphrates ...

  9. Madira Bickel Mound State Archaeological Site - Wikipedia

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    The Madira Bickel Mound State Archaeological Site is an archaeological site on Terra Ceia Island in northwestern Palmetto, Florida, United States. It is located on Bayshore Drive, west of U.S. 19, a mile south of I-275. On August 12, 1970, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It is also a Florida State Park.