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 ...

The Babylonian civilization was at its peak roughly 4,000 years ago, with architecturally advanced cities throughout the region known today as Iraq. Babylonians were especially brilliant with math, ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- If Galileo was the so-called father of astronomy, then the ancient Babylonians were the great, great-grandfathers. More than a thousand years before Galileo looked upward to ...

In recent years, there have been all kinds of anthropological breakthroughs radically shifting our ideas of ancient life and the capacities of our prehistory predecessors — from the discovery of the ...

Archaeologists excavating the City of David in Israel’s Jerusalem Walls National Park have uncovered charred wood, grape seeds, pottery, fish scales and bones and numerous rare artifacts that date ...

Washington, Jan 29 (EFE).Washington, Jan 29 (EFE). — Babylonians applied geometric calculations to astronomy more than 1500 years before Europeans hit upon the idea, according to an article published ...

A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses. By Franz Lidz It was good to be the king in ancient Babylonia, unless, ...

Most every kid learns a² + b² = c² in math. Pythagoras, right? Wrong. Babylonians used trigonometry 1,000 years before the Greeks. Time to rewrite history? This unassuming clay tablet may yet turn the ...