The Oldest Map Of The World

Gotta love Mr. Finkel's storytelling and infectious passion, British Museum curator and expert in cuneiform. This ~20-minute piece is about a Babylonian map - the oldest in the world - Written and inscribed on clay in Mesopotamia around 2,900-years-ago, it is, like so many cuneiform tablets, incomplete. However, the wizard, errr... Mr. Finkel and a particularly gifted student of his — Edith Horsley — managed to locate a missing piece of the map, slot it back into the cuneiform tablet, and from there set us all on journey through the somewhat mythical landscape of Mesopotamia to find the final resting place of the ark. That's some Indiana Jones shtick right there! And yes, it's THAT ark, as in Noah’s ark, although in the earlier Mesopotamian version of the flood story, the ark is built by Ziusudra.