The oldest map of the world has revealed the location of Noah's Ark. Photo

Scientists have deciphered the world's oldest map, engraved on a clay tablet about 3000 years ago. Researchers have discovered the location of Noah's Ark.

The Babylonian artifact, known as the Imago Mundi, shows a circular diagram with a writing system that used wedge-shaped symbols to describe the early creation of the world. The research was conducted by scientists from the British Museum, where the tablet is kept, DailyMail reports.

According to the scientists, the reverse side of the tablet acts as a key, describing what the traveler will see during their journey. On one side, the researchers deciphered ancient symbols that say one must pass through to "see something thick, like a parsikta vessel." The word "parsikta" has been found on other ancient Babylonian tablets, including to explain the size of the boat needed to survive the Great Flood.

The scientists followed the directions on the tablet and found their way to a location where an ancient Mesopotamian poem claims that a man and his family made an ark to save their lives. The location is the Assyrian equivalent of "Ararat," the Hebrew word for mountain. Noah crashed the biblical ship that was built for the same purpose.

"What if you went on this journey, you would see the remains of this historic boat," the message says.

"This is a description of the Ark, which was theoretically built according to the Babylonian version of Noah," suggested Dr. Irving Finkel, curator of the British Museum.

The Babylonian version of the story says that the god Ea sent a flood that destroyed all of humanity, except for Utnapishtim and his family, who built an ark and filled it with animals at the god's command.

The story of Gilgamesh's flood is known from clay tablets dating back about 3000 years, and the biblical flood took place about 5000 years ago.

The Bible states that the ark stopped at the "Mountains of Ararat" in Turkey after a 150-day flood that swallowed up the Earth and all life on it that was not inside the wooden ship. And the mountain in question has a top that matches the shape and size of Noah's Ark.

The idea that the ark landed on Ararat has caused a lot of controversy, as some scientists claim that this formation was formed by nature, while others are sure that it came from higher powers.

A team of experts led by Istanbul Technical University excavated the mountain for years, revealing in 2023 that they found clay, marine materials, and seafood from somewhere between 3000 and 5000 years ago.

However, Dr. Andrew Snelling, a young earth creationist with a PhD from the University of Sydney, had previously said that Mount Ararat could not be the location of the ark because it was only formed after the flood waters receded.

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