WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ancient Babylonian astronomers were way ahead of their time, using sophisticated geometric techniques that until now had been considered an achievement of medieval European ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All societies have had ways of understanding nature based on their experiences of it. For example, farmers need to understand the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of the bloody Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in the sixth century B.C. Experts digging in an excavation site at Jerusalem’s Mount Zion run by the University of ...

In recent years, there have been all kinds of anthropological breakthroughs radically shifting our ideas of ancient life and the capacities of our prehistory predecessors — from the discovery of the ...

Visualizing the greatest metropolis in the ancient world requires the full powers of imagination. This is partly due to simple geology. The sun-hardened mud bricks favored by Babylon’s builders have ...

While the Ancient Greeks spent their time searching for meaning in the cosmos, the Babylonians attempted, to quote fictional astronaut Mark Watney, to “science the shit” out of space. The Babylonians ...

The Babylonian Empire was one of the richest and most powerful societies in ancient history. Situated along the Euphrates River in modern-day Iraq, the state prospered from its trade with nearby ...

Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map — and they believe it may lead them to the location of Noah’s Ark. The 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact has puzzled archaeologists for centuries, ...

Archaeologists excavating the City of David in Israel’s Jerusalem Walls National Park have uncovered charred wood, grape seeds, pottery, fish scales and bones and numerous rare artifacts that date ...

Even when a culture leaves behind extensive written records, it can be hard to understand their knowledge of technology and the natural world. Written records are often partial, and writers may have ...