The rotation of the moon and other planets provides a natural rhythm and framework for understanding time, nature and human ...

Three researchers say they discovered massive structures under the pyramids at Giza. But what evidence do they provide?

There's still a lot left to learn when it comes to ancient history, and scientists are still finding locations long since ...

Learning was highly prized, and astronomy and mathematics were especially ... was breaking with the ancient religious traditions of Mesopotamia. On a bleak plain west of the Euphrates, Hatra ...

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The zodiac system was devised by the Babylonians in Mesopotamia around 4,000 years ago and was likely introduced to Egypt by the Ptolemies toward the end of the fourth century b.c. It soon became ...

The designs on these bowls, write the curators, "include animal imagery from distant Mesopotamian and Indus ... that appear to have been used to teach astronomy. Unusually, one of them was ...

Ancient civilizations from China to Mesopotamia carefully recorded these celestial events ... valuable partnership between professional and citizen scientists in modern astronomy. New Universe. Image ...

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian region from around 1300-600 B.C. At the dig ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out before sunrise and view brilliant Venus. The planet, which is only outshone by the Sun or the Moon, will lie low in ...

What does it take to decipher an extinct writing system? If Joshua Hammer’s new book The Mesopotamian Riddle: An archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world’s ...