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Georgina Bruce's avatar

So cool! Thanks for sharing this knowledge 🙏 and a very happy new year to you!

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Jetse de Vries's avatar

Fantastic piece, Maura! Happy New Year!

As it is, I'm researching the Babylonian calendar during Nebuchadrezzar II's reign for my next novel, and it's fascinating to see how these old civilisations tried to make their sky observations work (in particular fitting the Moon cylces with the Sun Cycles, which were so close, but don't fit perfectly). These old astronomers were the scientists of their time, they just missed essential information.

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