Babylonian Astronomy Research Paper

The Babylonians were one of the first civilizations to develop a language and began to write down discoveries and stories of their people. Among these writings is the recorded observations of the night sky. Throughout the Babylonian history, the population selects one person to specialize in writing down the observations. These chosen ones were named Scribes. This was an extremely important role to play in their society and Scribes performed the task of charting the movement of the stars and planets they could see with the naked eye.
The writings were exceptionally detailed and were in order according to daily, monthly and yearly positions of planets and stars. Not only were Scribes documenting the sky, according to an article written on Dawdlez, “Back then, astronomy had quite a significant mystical component so these scribes also interpreted omens for the king and warned him about potential future events. Afterwards the records were archived so that future astronomers could use them to learn to make their own observations.”(10 Ancient …show more content…
As time passed, the Babylonian astronomical knowledge was continued by other cultures such as Greece and eventually Europe. (Smith, 2016) The Babylonians whole way of life was surrounded by their advanced astronomical knowledge, which lead to the start of today’s understanding of Planetary Science and will continue to help continue the discovery of many more discoveries in the Solar