Ancient astronomers were highly sophisticated observers of the night sky. Though they lacked telescopes or any kind of magnification device, stargazing is one of the only things you could do at night, ...

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 world ...

Ancient Babylonian astronomers tracked the motion of Jupiter using a technique that historians had thought was invented some 1,400 years later, in Europe. The Babylonians lived before the birth of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. Long before anyone could download a stargazing app or buy a telescope from a department store, ancient ...