Episode 03
Beyond the Bitter River
A broken clay tablet draws Babylon inside a circular ocean and marks eight remote regions beyond the water. Mariana and Tyson test whether the Babylonian Map of the World records lost geography, inherited reports, or a learned system that made one city central to reality.
Coming Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Episode 03 is finished and scheduled. It runs about 28 min. Show notes, chapters and the full transcript go up with the audio.
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Ockelwog reconstruction. Built from a frontal museum photograph. The front is the best-supported face; the sides and back are inferred. Not a research scan.
The evidence
Babylonian Map of the World
A tablet about twelve centimeters high that draws Babylon inside a ring of salt water and marks eight regions beyond it.
- Date
- c. 600 BCE
- Place
- Sippar, Iraq
- Held
- British Museum, London
- Catalog
- BM 92687