[Adder]

Hmmm...Yet around 600 BC, Babylon invaded Israel proving they knew of it outside their "world". So I am not sure about the interpretation given.

[RoosterRedux]

If Prof. Irving Finkel is commenting on it, it’s bound to be an important and interesting subject.

[Psalm 73]

"...which describes the early creation of the world."

Ahh, the "Great Turtle" creation - then it's turtles all the way down....

[GOPJ]

ping

[equaviator]

“3,000-year-old secrets about creation of universe and monsters”

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest...

[Does so]

FTA:

“Two circles surrounded Mesopotamia on the map and were labeled as the Bitter River to indicate that Babylonians believed they were the only nation in the world”.

Think of the inhabitants of NYC.
;)

[Vaquero]

Stan Lee went out for a pack of Ziggurats and thought up the idea of scorpion man.

[TexasFreeper2009]

the bull man depicted almost certainly refers to the Minoan Civilization which would of existed at the same time

[Openurmind]

They could see “the mountains on the horizon” but the tether of the “known world” kept them from going past them?

I agree, it doesn’t make sense. We know they were seaworthy and traded with the south and the east. Probably as far as Africa south and we know for sure the Indus valley and further to the east.

https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/maritimearchaeology11/files/18404468.pdf

[Flag_This]

"'So you have, encapsulated in this circular diagram, the whole of the known world in which people lived, flourished and died,' Finkel said." The Babylonians were completely unaware of the Egyptians, Hittites, Minoans and Mycenaeans? That doesn't seem likely.

[MikelTackNailer]

I wonder if ancient cartographers including fanciful creatures to their maps were a form of lurid advertising, to pique the interests of the monarchs to whom explorers had to go to for ships and financing.

[aquila48]

An early edition of the Babylon Bee!