But in a controversial new study, researchers point to ancient cave paintings as proof that people who lived nearly 40,000 years ago already had this advanced knowledge of astronomy.

In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning 'land between two rivers', was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago.

By Buthayna El Haggar Astronomy and astrology were deeply intertwined in ancient civilizations, ... In Mesopotamia (c. 3500 BCE – 539 BCE), ...

Ancient Mesopotamia was no exception. In fact, astronomy and astrology were important disciplines in this region from early on. In the age before light pollution, the vivid night sky made such a ...

Douglas Garbutt, THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA IN ACCOUNTING HISTORY, The Accounting Historians Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 1984), ... Understanding of the materials has been advanced, ...

Jens Høyrup, The roles of Mesopotamian bronze age mathematics tool for state formation and administration – carrier of teachers' professional intellectual autonomy, Educational Studies in Mathematics, ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian ...

In ancient Mesopotamia (roughly modern Iraq), eclipses were in fact regarded as omens, as signs of things to come. For an eclipse to take place, three celestial bodies must find themselves in a ...

THE traditional view that the knowledge of astronomy of the Greece of classical times had been derived from Egypt, a view to which the writings of the Greeks themselves lent support, has lost ...