Babylonians laid the foundation for eclipse science. Babylonian scholars documented lunar eclipses on clay tablets starting around 750 B.C. They noticed patterns—most notably an 18-year cycle now ...

If you missed the partial solar eclipse March 29, fear not, there are plenty of skygazers who didn't, and they captured tons of great photos. According to NASA , the partial solar eclipse began ...

On Saturday, March 29, 2025, a deep partial solar eclipse will be visible across the Northern Hemisphere. While there will be no totality, during which the moon completely obscures the sun, this ...

Two sides of lunar eclipse tablet The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 b.c. and the first century a.d.

Name: Babylonian geometry homework What it is: A cuneiform mathematical clay tablet with an incorrect answer Where it is from: Tell Ingharra, Kish (Sumer), modern-day Iraq When it was made: Old ...

In the Biblical story, Noah is tasked by God to build a large ark and to gather two of every animal onto it to ensure their survival during a 150-day flood sent to cleanse the world of wickedness.

The latest news on the 2024 solar eclipse, including the projected path, the weather forecast and everything you need to know to view it safely. US launches attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran ...

World News: The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with ...

The "oldest map of the world in the world" on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to the British Museum's Irving Finkel.

When the Moon fully slips into Earth's shadow, a king shall die. So warns an ominous prediction from Old Babylonia, inscribed across several ancient clay tablets. For over a century now, these ...

Archaeologists Andrew George and Junko Taniguchi decoded 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets, uncovering 61 omens predicting civilizational downfall and leader deaths through lunar eclipses. These ...

The only other eclipse omens discovered from Old Babylonia are a collection of 32 tablets that were also found near the Euphrates river. But these do not specify between lunar and solar eclipses.