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A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...
From Palaeolithic cave paintings to cruciform churches and Sydney’s Kings Cross, this deceptively primitive intersection of two lines has enduring symbolic power.
It explores ancient prediction and forecasting methods such as extispicy (the examining of animal entrails; a practice that dates to 3000 BCE Mesopotamia ... theory or cosmology behind a practice.
In Mesopotamia this was not an identity but a description of ... he argues that while cardinal directions were initially derived from cosmology and geomagnetism, their practical application has been ...
Wolves featured prominently throughout Norse cosmology beyond just Fenrir ... Image by Michael LaRosa via Unsplash. In ancient Mesopotamia, one of humanity’s earliest civilizations, wolves occupied an ...
Discover the Imago Mundi, the 2,600-year-old Babylonian world map from Sippar, Iraq. Learn how it blends geography, myth & ...
A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has revealed that the dwarf galaxies orbiting around Andromeda, our neighboring galaxy, are distributed in such an uneven way that it calls into question ...