According to foreign media, they thought that the earth is in the center of the universe. In Russia, it was believed that the earth was flat and that there were three whales floating in the endless ocean.

Peoples living on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (Mesopotamia) imagined that the earth was a huge mountain with 12 pillars and an boundless ocean. In ancient India, the earth was believed to be flat. Giant elephants are holding him on their backs. Elephants, in turn, stand on a giant tortoise. The tortoise is on a snake that symbolizes the sky and encompasses the world.

The ancient Egyptians also believed that the earth was flat, that the sky was a solid dome standing on this plane, and that the ark of the sun-god (Ra) was moving in all directions in the sky, showing the way of the sun (from sunrise to sunset).
 

Currently, there are "flat ground" supporters who believe that the sun moves in zero space and is immediately visible on the other side of the disk.