III. WHEN names had to be given to stars, the Babylonians naturally took them from the objects around themselves. The heavenly host was compared to an immense flock, and several stars were grouped ...

BABYLONIAN astronomy has been investigated during the last year successfully by the Rev. Joseph Epping and the Rev. J. N. Strassmaier, S.J., who have explained and annotated two Babylonian ...

The foundation of Babylonian astronomy was kept in a book called MUL.APIN, meaning “The Plough Star,” the name of a ...

Babylonian star catalogs served as the basis of astronomy for more than a thousand years despite the boom and bust of the Middle Assyrian Empire, the Neo-Assyrian Empire, ...

How 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablets help scientists unravel one of ... the "The Plough Star" tablets bear inscriptions dating to 687 B.C. and are the first known instances of humans tracking ...

A historian makes the case for Babylonian astronomy Published: March 17, 2025 8:59am EDT. James Byrne, ... meaning “The Plough Star,” the name of a constellation.