Ancient Babylonians attributed prescient meaning to celestial events, a study published this month argues, shedding fresh light on the Mesopotamian people of the second millennium BC. The paper ...
Eclipses were generally understood to be angry messages from the gods. “The reading of omens was how the Babylonians made sense of the world,” said Andrew George, an Assyriologist and emeritus ...
Although it may not be entirely accurate, it offers a glimpse into how ancient Babylonians viewed the world around them. The map was a clay tablet that was created somewhere between 2,600 to 2,900 ...
THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of ...