Oldest Known Map Of The World. While its exact founding is unknown Jericho is believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. It is known as the Imago Mundi.
This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world first known presence of Homo sapiens. One such Babylonian clay tablet that has been generally accepted as the earliest known map is the artifact unearthed in 1930 at the excavated ruined city of Ga-Sur at Nuzi Yorghan Tepe near the towns of Harran and Kirkuk 200 miles north of the site of Babylon present-day Iraq. And another claimed map from the Czech Republic is 25000 years old see Maps through the millennia.
The oldest town plan in existence says Jeremy Harwood in To the Ends of the Earth.
100 Maps that Changed the World. Named after a 15th-16th century humanist called Konrad Peutinger the map spans Europe India and North Africa. The list is divided into four categories Middle Paleolithic before 50000 years ago Upper Paleolithic 50000 to 12500 years ago Holocene 12500 to 500 years ago and Modern Age of Sail and modern exploration. More commonly known as the Babylonian Map of the World the Imago Mundi is considered the oldest surviving world map.
