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Newly discovered Babylonian tablets just rewrote the history of astronomy

2016-01-29 19:17:09| Extremetech

New findings suggest the astronomers of ancient Babylon developed geometry-based astronomy 1400 years earlier than previously thought. This discovery rewrites the timeline of what we thought ancient peoples knew about how to measure distance in the heavens.

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