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Lecture I. History of the Sumerian, Accadian, Assyrian, and West Semitic calendars -- Lecture II. The menologies and almanacs for Nisan and Teshrit -- Lecture III. The Tammuz-Ishtar cycle of months: ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. About 1,000 Dead Sea Scrolls discovered just over 70 years ago near Khirbet Qumran on the northwestern shore of ...

Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map — and they believe it may lead them to the location of Noah’s Ark. The 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact has puzzled archaeologists for centuries, ...

The timing of the festival and beginning of the Babylonians’ new year — which also sometimes occurred in March, marking the start of the farming season — was based on the Babylonian calendar, said Dr.

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Humans have been making New Year’s resolutions for approximately 4,000 years. But where and how did this tradition begin? The first people who recorded their celebrations ...