Babylonian astronomy was the study or recording of celestial objects during the early history of Mesopotamia. The numeral system used, sexagesimal, was...

river crossings or ferry-boats. While the nature of the "crossing" in astronomy has "long been a source of confusion in scholarly and popular opinion"...

The Babylonian calendar was a lunisolar calendar used in Mesopotamia from around the second millennium BCE until the Seleucid Era (294 BCE), and it was...

upon. At this time Babylonian astrology was solely mundane, and prior to the 7th century BC the practitioners' understanding of astronomy was fairly rudimentary...

Wayback Machine Babylonian Numerals Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Babylonian Astronomy/Astrology Bibliography of Babylonian Astronomy/Astrology...

marks, boxes, or other symbols. Babylonian astronomy collated earlier observations and divinations into sets of Babylonian star catalogues, during and after...

degree (°) originated with Babylonian astronomy during the 1st millennium BC. It was only then communicated into Greek astronomy by the 2nd century BC, as...

taken from Greek astronomy, albeit via the terminology they took on in Latin. Greek astronomy was heavily influenced by Babylonian astronomy and, to a lesser...

Babylonian mathematics (also known as Assyro-Babylonian mathematics) is the mathematics developed or practiced by the people of Mesopotamia, from the...

Central Asian, and Western European astronomy. The oldest Babylonian texts on medicine date back to the Old Babylonian period in the first half of the 2nd...