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Scientists managed to decipher the oldest map of the world, created about 3 thousand years ago on a stone tablet. Researchers suggest that among the images on this tablet there may even be an indication of the location of Noah's Ark.
This is reported by News Planet with reference to Daily Mail.
A Babylonian artifact called the Imago Mundi, which looks like a circular diagram with cuneiform symbols, was used by the Babylonians to describe the creation of the world. The British Museum, where the tablet is kept, conducted a detailed analysis of it and deciphered part of the text. A story reminiscent of the biblical story of Noah and the ark has been revealed.
On the reverse side of the tablet, scientists found a "key" that leads to a mysterious object. The text describes the way to the "parsiktus", which, as we know from other Babylonian tablets, refers to a vessel that saved lives during the flood. The route points to the area of Urartu, which is believed to correspond to the biblical Ararat.
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The Imago Mundi is an ancient map of the world that shows Mesopotamia in the center, surrounded by a "bitter river" - a symbol of the edge of the known world. It is believed that there were once eight triangles around the perimeter, which may have represented the mountains mentioned on the tablet.
According to the researchers, if the traveler follows this path, he will reach a large ship on top of the mountain. This may be an ark created according to the Babylonian version of the legend in which the god Ea sent a flood to destroy mankind, except for Utnapishtim and his family, who escaped in an ark of animals.
The Babylonian story of the flood, known from tablets dating back three thousand years, has much in common with the biblical one. In the last Noah's ark, after 150 days of sailing, stopped at the mountains of Ararat. Researchers believe that the shape and size of the described ark point to this very place.
Despite the prevalence of these legends, many historians and archaeologists tend to believe that the story about the ark has a symbolic meaning and is not a literal historical event.
