Ancient local maps & City maps The oldest maps found so far are regional maps: Çatalhöyük city map with the eruption of Mount Hasan volcano, ca 6200 BC, found in 1963 near Konya,Turkey (3 x 0.9 m) (Ankara Mus. of Anatolian Civiliz.)(http://yerindecizer.blogspot.com/2018/02/catalhouk-haritas.html )(https://arkeonews.net/the-oldest-map-of-the-world-found-in-catalhoyuk/ ) Ga-Sur map showing a river valley, ca. 2500 BC, found in 1930 at Yorghan Tepe (Nuzi), near Kirkouk, Iraq (0.076 x 0.068 m, top is south) (University of Harvard Mus.) Nippur map showing the city with its walls, temples and canals, ca. 1300 BC, found around 1899 at Nippur (Irak) (0.21 x 0.18 m) (University of Pennsylvania Mus.) Turin Papyrus (eastern part) showing the Wadi Hammamat gold mine, ca. 1150 BC, found by B. Drovetti around 1820 at Deir el-Medina (Egypt). (2.10 x 0.41 m, top is south). (Torino Mus.) Imago Mundi clay tablet, showing the Babylon area, ca. 6th c. BC, found by H. Rassam in 1882 at Sippar (Irak), (0.122 x 0.082 m, top is north), (British Mus. N° 92687). Marbres d’Orange tabula, showing the cadastral map of the Roman colony Julia Firma Arausio Secundanorum (77 AD) consisting of three maps (the largest is 7.56 x 5.90 m) (Orange Mus. picture A. de Graauw, 2020). Dura-Europos parchment, showing a part of the Black Sea coast, around 200 AD (acc. to P. Arnaud, 1990), found in 1923 by F. Cumont in Syria (0.45 x 0.18 m, top is East). (Wikipedia) Map of Rome, the Marble Plan, or Forma Urbis Romae,built around 203-211 AD on a wall of Templum Pacis (18.22x 12.87 m)(Wikipedia & Stanford Univ.) Madaba mosaic, showing Palestina, around 550 AD, probably based on a 3rd c. Roman map (acc. to P. Arnaud, 1990), found in 1896 in Jordan (15.7 x 5.6 m, top is East). (Wikipedia) References ORANGE: http://www.archeo-rome.com/orange/orange01.html DURA-EUROPOS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura-Europos_Route_map MADABA Mosaic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madaba_Map