A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

Honoring the late Rabbi Abraham Hamra, the chief rabbi of Syrian Jewry, the library unveiled several of the 12 fragile ...

At the heart of the novel is the Lahmi family — in particular Gabriella — a young woman with a rare spiritual sensitivity who ...

How Did the Egyptian Calendar Contribute to the Modern Calendar?   While some earlier civilizations had created calendars, the Egyptian calendar contributed heavily to the modern calendar. The ...

Given the experience of Babylonian exile, it is not surprising that an ancient story about captivity ... are celebrated according to the Jewish calendar, which is based on the lunar cycle ...

Significance of Spring Equinox in different cultures — The ancient Babylonian calendar began with the first full moon after the March equinox, a tradition passed on by many civilisations that ...

He also profoundly shaped the calendar systems that would ... tool in the broader field of astronomy in ancient Greece. By actually embracing and then bringing this fundamental knowledge for the time ...

Astronomy and astrology were deeply intertwined in ancient civilizations ... 3500 BCE – 539 BCE), particularly in Babylon, astronomy was integral to their culture and daily life, often intertwined ...

The answer, it turns out, traces back 3,000 to 4,000 years, to the ancient Babylonian festival ... the farming season — was based on the Babylonian calendar, said Dr. Louisa McKenzie, an art ...