Babylonian astronomy

The Babylonian Empire is a very economic and cultural empire, and is located by the Tigris-Euphrates River(McShane). The Babylonian Empire uses writing systems to keep records, which is how historians learn about Babylon(Nardo 37). Babylon was first apart of the Tigris-Euphrates plains until the Babylonians replaced Sumerians and became the largest city in Mesopotamia(Nardo 33). Babylon and other empires have been profoundly impacted by different rulers and time periods such as Hammurabi,…

back to 626 BC, the beginning of the Babylonian Empire. After hearing about her remarkable invention we were joined by Kalissa herself and we just had to ask her a few questions. Our first question for Kalissa was “What interested you in wanting to build a time machine?” She gave us the response of, “As a little girl I was always interested in the history of Babylonia and always told myself that I would one day build a time machine to go back to the Babylonian civilization.” The question…

The Babylonians were one of the first civilizations to develop a language and began to write down discoveries and stories of their people. Among these writings is the record of their observations of the night sky. Throughout the Babylonian history, the population select one person to specialize in writing down the observations. These chosen ones were named Scribes. This was an extremely important role to play in their society and performed the task of charting the movement of the stars and…

Astronomy and Astrology: A Battle of Two Ancestral Brothers Astronomy, being an actual natural science, and not just predictions and magic, is a much more useful practice than its ancestral brother, astrology. Though, long ago, astronomy and astrology were once thought to be the one and the same, in the modern era, these two "sciences" are different in both the way they are practiced, and the tools with which you practice them. Astronomy, considered to be the more "real", respected science out…

modern Turkey, attacked and conquered Babylon taking control of Babylonia. With no immediate king in place the Kassites, in 1531BC, took control of Babylonia. The Sealand Dynasty of 1732 to 1460BC coexisted at the same time along with the First Babylonian Dynasty. This dynasty was a separate dynasty in the far southern part of what was Sumer known as Sealand. It was ruled by native Akkadians who claim to be descendants of the First Dynasty of Isin. After the fall of Babylonia the Sealand…

The Ancient Greek astronomers played an integral part in the construction of modern astronomy and our current understanding of our solar system. They were far from the first ancient astronomers; most of their work was built upon pre-existing knowledge from the Babylonians and Egyptians. However, what distinguishes the Ancient Greek philosophers from their predecessors was their attempt to not only observe the night sky but also to understand it. The Greek astronomers theorised the workings of…

Going through astronomy is quite fantastic, but one of Astronomies marvelous things is the Zodiac. The Zodiac is a belt around the ecliptic extending 9 degrees surrounding the sun and planets. The Zodiac is made up of 12 constellations that all have meanings. The Zodiac is seen throughout history. The Zodiac first began in ancient Egypt, and then was adopted by the Babylonians where it has been formed to a group of constellations. After this paper is read, more knowledge about the zodiac will…

located between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers in the valleys of the Middle East (Matthews et al., 2014). Therefore, the three cultures that arose and were successful in the Mesopotamia region from 3000-1600 B.C. were the Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian (Matthews et al., 2014). The three cultures were responsible for the same geography, climate,…

powers are through the Stars. Enoch was one of the most popular books amongst Christians in ancient times. God was glorious enough to reveal the positions of the Stars to Enoch and he wrote them down. This may go back to the role of astronomy during the Babylonian, Egyptian, Persian, and Greek Empires or a new awareness that constellations are not just constellations and they may be constellations of power ordained by God. We know that with the early Christians the writings of Enoch were…

it would bring them closer to their gods. In Assyrian and Babylonian civilizations, they gazed up into the sky each night and recorded what they saw. They realized that the stars orbited in the same way each night. “They soon learnt to recognize those that seemed fixed to the vault of heaven, reappearing each night in the same place. And they saw shapes in the constellations and gave them names” (Gombrich, 20). The Assyrians and Babylonians believed that the stars constant revolving motion was…