Babylonian Archive

World’s Oldest Depiction Of A Ghost Discovered On 3,500-Year-Old Babylonian Tablet

AncientPages.com | October 20, 2021

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Unlike many other ancient civilizations, people in believed something unpleasant was awaiting the deceased on the other site. Our knowledge about the Mesopotamian

Archaeology

Evidence Of Babylonian Destruction Of Jerusalem Found At The City of David

AncientPages.com | August 19, 2017

AncientPages.com - Evidence of the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians, has been found by archaeologists conducting excavations in the City of David, at the Jerusalem Walls National

Archaeology

Ancient Babylonian Astronomical Records Confirm Slowing Of Earth’s Spin

AncientPages.com | December 20, 2016

AncientPages.com - Ancient Babylonians were excellent astronomers who wrote down their observations on cuneiform tablets. By studying ancient records of lunar and solar eclipses carved in clay tablets, dating back

It was assumed that Babylonian astronomers used only arithmetical methods. "The new interpretation reveals that Babylonian astronomers also used geometrical methods"

Archaeology

Babylonian Astronomers Used Geometry To Track Jupiter – 1,400 Years Before Europeans

AncientPages.com | January 28, 2016

AncientPages.com - An analysis of three published and two unpublished cuneiform tablets from the British Museum has revealed that Babylonian astronomers used geometry to calculate the motions of Jupiter

Civilizations

First Record Of Ancient Music Of Babylon

AncientPages.com | December 19, 2014

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - What did music in ancient Babylon sound like? No-one really knows, but based on ancient Mesopotamian poems it is possible to reconstruct some