What is the oldest world map known?
Babylonian Imago Mundi (c. Imago Mundi Babylonian map, the oldest known world map, 6th century BC Babylonia. Imago Mundi Babylonian map, the oldest known world map, 6th century BC Babylonia. Now in the British Museum. A Babylonian world map, known as the Imago Mundi, is commonly dated to the 6th century BCE.A 6th century B. C. Babylonian clay tablet in the British Museum is the oldest surviving map of the world. It was discovered in Sippar, modern-day southern Iraq, and the world it maps has the Euphrates running down the center with Babylon straddling it.