Show MAP YEARS OLD IS FOUND hand size tablet dug up at anuzi site in iraq cambridge mass the oldest map in the world drawn more than years ago on a clay ta tablet blet 3 by 26 25 inches Is the unique find of excavators excava tors for the semitic and ro fogg g museums of harvard university under the direction of R F S starr fellow of bf the fogg art art museum abt a t the site of ancient buzi in iraq miles north of babylon the tablet Is so small that it may anay be held I 1 in n the hollow of the hand ban and the point etwas it was found Is more more than 20 fe feet et underground so that only the merest meresi chance revealed the map to the world other an ancient clent maps have come from the same region but none from a site as old as ga sur the city underneath underneath huzl which Is dated by ns as MOO 2300 n B 0 the map found at nuz anuzi was nt nl most from the clay B fill 11 which surrounded it five weeks of careful drying and finally balling at a high temperature were nere required before the surrounding clay could be removed and tile armi drawing ing three of the four points of the compass are marked on the borders of the map in the ancient symbols of the people aho preceded the builders of the guzu temple according to authorities on oil the and languages it Is apparently a map of 30 gan of garden land belonging to azala or shat azala who nho clearly must have been a man of wealth ve alth place names appear on the tab I 1 lot let and a river runs from north to south dividing into three streams at the foot of the map mountains flank the river valley on east and west these are drawn in the characteristic act nabi ionian of many cent centuries urles later the locality in which shat aza las land was found is not clearly known so much has tile face of tile the territory surrounding anuzi changed in more than years one place name can be read as the fortress of lb ih lj la the site of the excavation where the mp map was found Is near tile the eternal flames which tile the na ales believe to be the site of the original fiery furnace of tile the bible and koran these flames burning uninterruptedly ore are fed by sulp sulphur aur dioxide gas escaping from sub subterranean er pockets anuzi Is eight m miles les from kirkum and miles so southeast th of the site of NI nineveh DeVell |