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Imago Mundi: Babylonian Map of The World
A bit before the time Anaximander was conceptualizing his idea of a spheric world floating in space, some other bloke, possibly the son of Iṣṣuru the descendant of Ea-bēl-ilī was busy turning stones into documents in the humble hood of Mesopotamia. Little did their sophisticated, parchment-inking, perhaps condescending, Greek neighbours know, this map actually stood the test of time.
Oldest Map In The World: The Mammoth Tusk Map
In 1962 a bunch of archeologists dug up a scratched up mammoth tusk around Pavlov, Czech Republic. Now, these and some other folks think this may be the oldest representation of documented spatial awareness dumped into some form of a proto-map, created during the Upper Paleolithic period.
Anaximander’s Map of The Known World (c. 610 — 546 BCE)
Anaximander was a Greek philosopher who did his thing around the 6th century BCE. He is credited with creating one of the earliest known maps of the (known) world. For its time a groundbreaking work. And even though it’s been lost to time, it has left its indelible mark on the history of geography, cartography and scientific thought.