Iraq: Map of the City of Nippur incised on a baked clay tablet, c. 14th century BCE. This ancient clay tablet is dated to the 14th-13th century BCE, and on it is inscribed a map of the countryside around the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, located in the middle of the southern Mesopotamia floodplain, near the modern city of Diwaniyah. The inscription on the tablet is in cuneiform. It may be the oldest city map in the world.

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