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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A clay tablet with cuneiform characters may contain a mathematical technique that was believed to be invented 1,400 years later BERLIN—For a text that may rewrite the history of mathematics, it looks ...

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, ...

We've learned a lot about space in the past century. But humans' earliest understanding of eclipses dates all the way back to ancient Babylon. Tomorrow, the great American eclipse will sweep across ...

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