Tablet with a list of eclipses between 518 and 465, mentioning the death of king Xerxes (British Museum) “Babylonian predictions relate to events that were visible somewhere on the Earth’s surface, however often far away from Babylon.” 2 Read more: http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2006/locations/babylon.php

Tablet with a list of eclipses between 518 and 465, mentioning the death of king Xerxes (British Museum)

“Babylonian predictions relate to events that were visible somewhere on the Earth’s surface, however often far away from Babylon.”

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Read more: http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2006/locations/babylon.php

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