According to IFLScience, the map was discovered by the renowned archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam in the 19th century, along with other artifacts in Sippar in present-day Iraq, about 25 miles southwest ...

The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what ...

The site of Babylon was first identified in the 1800s in what is now Iraq. Later excavations, undertaken by the German archaeologist Robert Koldewey in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...