Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All societies have had ways of understanding nature based on their experiences of it. For example, farmers need to understand the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In school we learn there are 360 degrees in a circle, but where did the 360 come from? When it is pointed out that the Babylonians ...

The Dendera Zodiac, long celebrated as evidence of advanced Egyptian astronomy, contains Babylonian constellations including ...

The purpose of four ancient Babylonian tablets at the British Museum has long been a historical mystery, but now it turns out that they describe a method that uses figures on a graph to calculate the ...

BABYLONIAN astronomy has been investigated during the last year successfully by the Rev. Joseph Epping and the Rev. J. N. Strassmaier, S.J., who have explained and annotated two Babylonian calendars ...

Ancient astronomers were highly sophisticated observers of the night sky. Though they lacked telescopes or any kind of magnification device, stargazing is one of the only things you could do at night, ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

I recently watched Ancient Skies, a PBS documentary about ancient Babylonia, and wondered: where did this ancient world of sky-watching, calculation, and record-keeping intersect with the story of the ...

THIS is a work of great interest to students both of archaeology and of astronomy. The story of the many stages that were necessary before a full understanding was reached of the astronomical value of ...