A 3,000-year-old clay tablet, recognized as the world's oldest map and believed to depict ... discovering an ancient Biblical reference that had gone unnoticed for centuries.

A 17th-century map of ancient Jerusalem (credit ... acquaintance with various parts of the world, maps back then were drawn from the perspective of biblical interpretations rather than physical ...

In the Biblical story, Noah is tasked by God ... The tablet shows a circular world map with the ancient city of Babylon represented as a long rectangle. Surrounding the map is a “bitter river ...