I have always been fascinated by cartography and old maps in general.
Cartography is an integral part of our history and has been for thousand years, so I can understand why.
Do you know when the first maps were created?
The first maps we as humans have found from our early history date back to Babylon, Greece and Parts of Asia.
Wow. That is amazing.  I image many of the first maps assumed the Earth was flat, right?
Babylonians  and Mesopotamian as a whole believed the earth was Spherical as far as we know in their texts.
Interesting.  I thought it was a universal belief in those time that Earth was flat.  They must have been ahead of their times regarding knowledge.
The Mesopotamian people knew much about astronomy and geography as noted in their amazing Euphrates villages and the historic sites in Turkey in Iraq.