Ganapatis birthday is on the fourth day of the bright half of lunar month of Bhadrapada This night one is supposed to avoid seeing the moon But for those who have seen the moon there is a remedy On Ga ...

Through smog and soot and horrid dust,/You will have to endure/To make a wage... This verse can evoke a more eloquent exp ...

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

Cyrus, known as king of kings or Shahenshah, is remembered particularly by Jewish and Christian scholars for his support for ...

Discover the Imago Mundi, the 2,600-year-old Babylonian world map from Sippar, Iraq. Learn how it blends geography, myth & cosmology.

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

The word ‘Putu’ appears to be a reference to Libya, while ‘Iaman’ is the Babylonian form of ‘Ionian.’ Hence, scholars generally understand this to be a reference to Cyrene, the Greek colony in Libya.

1 Introduction The old Babylonian algorithm, a remarkable mathematical artifact from ancient Mesopotamia (around 1800–1600 BC), has long been a subject of fascination to scholars. This ancient ...

Babylonian mathematics had a base 60 number system, which we still use today to tell time — 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour. And these ancient people understood the Pythagorean ...

One open cluster of stars, many names. Representing the Seven Sisters in Greek mythology and found in the constellation Taurus, the stars of Pleiades (M45) have dozens of different indigenous names.