the whole of the known world in which people lived, flourished and died,” British museum curator and cuneiform expert Dr. Irving Finkel said in the video. “However, there’s more to this map ...

The map showing the two hemispheres of the world in the Hunterian collection was designed for the Second Qing Emperor of China, Kangxi (1662-1722) by the Jesuit Father Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-88 ...

British Museum curator Dr. Irving Finkel held up a cuneiform tablet and said that this piece of clay contained the oldest map of the world ... in restoring the map to whole.

It was more primordial: to help the map-holder grasp the idea of the whole world, with himself at the center. “There was something almost talismanic, I think, about having the world in your hand ...