Yesterday afternoon, Professor Lyon continued his course of lectures on Babylonian Books, and he devoted the hour to exhibiting and explaining many interesting relics of the inhabitants of ...

This led the scribes to study astronomy. The foundation of Babylonian astronomy was kept in a book called MUL.APIN, meaning “The Plough Star,” the name of a constellation. It recorded the positions of ...

Babylon has resonated in Judeo-Christian culture for centuries. The books of the Old Testament recount the exile of the Jews to Babylon following the sack of Jerusalem, by whose waters they “sat ...

From the oak and the date palm to Islamic mythology and English pastoral, the Iraqi-British author blends memoir with nature writing in a striking exploration of identity and place, and a love ...

How Babylonian astronomy worked The foundation of Babylonian astronomy was kept in a book called MUL.APIN, meaning “The Plough Star,” the name of a constellation. It recorded the positions of ...