Top 10 Shocking Facts of Mesopotamian civilization

Map making

Shocking Facts of Mesopotamian civilization-Map making

The most crude guides that exist today are carvings on rocks and caverns, for the most part addressing the nearby geography of the area. The earliest of these traces all the way back to 25,000 BC and is a guide of Mesopotamia.

The Sumerians utilized mud tablets of around 18 x 21cm to definitively mark milestones on the area they needed to draw. The guide of the old city of Nuzi was made at some point somewhere in the range of 2360 and 2180 BC and is most presumably the most established guide. It plainly shows the high level geography and studying abilities of the old Mesopotamian map makers

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