The Babilonians

[The SC]

Babilonia

http://www.crystalinks.com/babylonia.html

The Babylonian counting system developed in ancient Mesopotamia near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The Babylonians had a base-60 (sexagesimal) positional counting system, meaning that numeration was done in positions that incremented by powers of 60. A present day example would be how time is kept using increments of 60, such as 60 seconds to a minute and 60 minutes to an hour. The Babylonians kept track of their mathematics on clay tablets using their ancient form of stylus writing call cuneiform. These clay tablets survived to present day and in the 1930s, a scholar by the name of Otto Neugebauer translated the Babylonian collections housed at the British Museum, the Louvre, Yale, Columbia, and Penn and revealed that all of the clay tablets were indeed mathematical in nature. The Babylonians are a very important culture to mathematics because found in their mathematical clay tablets were precursors to today's Quadratic Equation and the Pythagorean Theorem which had been later refined by the Greeks. The Babylonians were also the first to make use of fractions.

http://students.cis.uab.edu/cateli/body3.html

 

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[DRaisinHerald]

Babylon was also the place were magic was first used.

Interestingly, the Jewish book of laws, the Talmud, or more appropriately the 'Babylonian Talmud' was also written in Babylon during the times the Israelites were enslaved by them. It contains much mysticism such as the Kabalah.

 

[The SC]

The stars are fixed and regular and you can set your calendar by them which was exactly what the Babylonians did. By 1100 B.C.E. the Babylonians were using a simple instrument called an astrolabe but which was actually a type of parapegma or star calendar.

This instrument listed the stars in the different parts of the sky. These were Ea (south of the ecliptic and the outer ring of the instrument), Anu, (the ecliptic zone, middle ring) and Enlil (north of the ecliptic the inner ring) which would rise before dawn for each of the twelve Babylonian months. By making their instruments circular they could also see what stars would be setting or, more importantly as it was easier to see, what stars were culminating at dawn for any given month.

The culminating stars were called the ziqpu-stars and the emphasis on observing and recording the ziqpu-stars may well have been the origin of the M.C. in horoscopic astrology.
Right: Babylonian astrolabe from Schott (1934).

Physical evidence exists that the Babylonians had a method of calculating the square root of some numbers as early as 2000 years before the birth of Christ. In the Yale collection there exist an artifact that shows the calculation of the square root of two to five decimal places accurately. One image of the item, called YBC7289, can be seen above. What may surprise many students is that the ancient Babylonian method seems to be the same as the method frequently taught in school text books. The method is frequently attributed to Heron (or Hero) because it appears in his Metrica, and is also called Newton’s method, but most students who know the method, know it as the "divide-and-average" method.

 

[The SC]

Babylonian Creational Myths - Enuma Elish

Babylonian Creational Myths - Enuma Elish - Crystalinks

Rare 4,000 year-old cuneiform tablet that sheds light on beliefs and practices of religious Babylonian customs

 

[The SC]

Batteries in ancient Babylon. The babylonians had the technology to make electricity. It proves that modern man is not as advanced and technically skilled as his early forbears

Around 1400 BC The Babylonians develop a water clock named the "clepsydra

 

[W.11]

The SC, are you history channel??

 

[The SC]

Maraduk was the most important God to the Babylonians.

The SC, are you history channel??

I used to like History channel, but I am not that, just contributing by combining history with beautiful pictures depicting it, and it is my heritage as well as a worldwide heritage.

 

[ProsperBD]

The Light Pt. 47 (Modern Babylon) - YouTube
Babylon was full of paganism and etc. Most evil came from babylon and we Muslims know what happen to the Babylonians

 

[TrMhMt]

The Light Pt. 47 (Modern Babylon) - YouTube
Babylon was full of paganism and etc. Most evil came from babylon and we Muslims know what happen to the Babylonians

What happened them ??

 

[pk_baloch]

babloniya is the old name of mesopotamia......!!!!!

 

[Pirupiru]

I just know that Babilonian has its own version of dragon

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

I am so impressed! Iraqis got such an amazing civilization, they must be proud of their history.

 

[ProsperBD]

What happened them ??

Sorry for the late reply, it was completely destroyed.