Maps

Ten thousand years of humans drawing the world — from Babylonian clay tablets to satellite imagery.

3 posts· 11660 BCE – 550 BCE

• Anaximander's world map, or how a philosopher drew the whole earth 550 BCE
• The Babylonian world map, or how an empire drew the edge of everything 600 BCE
• The Abauntz map, or how a hunter scratched the world onto a stone 11660 BCE