Ebook: Keeping watch in Babylon : the astronomical diaries in context
Author: Haubold Johannes, Steele John M., Stevens Kathryn
- Tags: Astronomy Assyro-Babylonian, Astronomy Ancient
- Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East 100.
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Brill
- Language: English
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This volume of collected essays, the first of its kind in any language, investigates the Astronomical Diaries from ancient Babylon, a collection of almost 1000 clay tablets which, over a period of some five hundred years (6th century to 1st century BCE), record observations of selected astronomical phenomena as well as the economy and history of Mesopotamia and surrounding regions. The volume asks who the scholars Read more...