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.
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq, Kuwait, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish–Syrian and Iran–Iraq borders.
The Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by
cartography. He expresses his emphasis on maps anew when he writes in the "Geographisches Jahrbuch":
"In first instance the end result and final goal of all geographic investigations, explorations, and surveys is the depiction of the earth’s surface: the map. The map is the basis for geography. The map shows us what we know about our earth in the best, clearest and most exact way. The contemporary map should so depict the earth’s surface that one can not only measure the horizontal positions of and