With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is ...

This fifth tablet ... astronomy, and the tablets contain no data on their motivations. One thing we do know is that the planet Jupiter was associated with Marduk, the head of the Babylonian ...

the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries are one of, if not the longest continuous research program ever undertaken,” writes Boxer. The cuneiform tablets studied by the UCL team extend this ...

The name means “in the days of Anu and Enlil”; Anu was the sky god, Enlil the wind god. The tablets, which date as far back as 1950 BC, list 7,000 omens from Babylonian astrology ...

Researchers have deciphered ancient Babylonian tablets that predict future disasters ... only now been completely translated and linked to astronomical events. Ancient Babylonians had a special ...

"[The tablet] testifies to the revolutionary brilliance of the unknown Mesopotamian scholars who constructed Babylonian mathematical astronomy during the second half of the first millennium B.C ...

But now a scholar studying ancient clay tablets suggests that the Babylonians ... Mesopotamian scholars who constructed Babylonian mathematical astronomy during the second half of the first ...

According to Babylonian scholars ... For instance, according to a famous astronomical work known by its initial words, “Enūma Anu Enlil” – “When (the gods) Anu and Enlil” – if ...