Ancient Babylonian texts reveal how Marduk was linked to Jupiter, the Sun, and constellations, turning the night sky into a ...

We’ve never escaped the influence of the Babylonians. That there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 360 degrees in a full circle, are all echoes of the Babylonian preference for ...

As The New York Times recently reported, researchers have discovered clay tablets indicating that Babylonian astronomers were able to track Jupiter’s movement across the sky using a very advanced ...

While the Ancient Greeks spent their time searching for meaning in the cosmos, the Babylonians attempted, to quote fictional astronaut Mark Watney, to “science the shit” out of space. The Babylonians ...

Ancient Babylonians charted Jupiter’s heavenly motion in a surprisingly modern, mathematically abstract way — a feat that until now was thought to have originated among European scholars who lived ...

A new study on an artifact dating back some 3,700 years revealed how advanced mathematic calculations were used for measuring purposes in agriculture. An inscribed Babylonian clay tablet dating back ...

Even when a culture leaves behind extensive written records, it can be hard to understand their knowledge of technology and the natural world. Written records are often partial, and writers may have ...

Our modern understanding of trigonometry harks back to ancient Greek astronomers studying the movement of celestial bodies through the night sky. But in 2017, I showed the ancient Babylonians likely ...

They figured out a math problem related to the path of Jupiter—14 centuries before top British and French scientists did. Trapezoids are, oddly enough, fundamental to modern science. When European ...

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