BABYLONIAN

WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF BABYLONIAN ?

• Babylonian is a civilization that developed in Mesopotamia
around 1800 BCE, succeeding the Sumerian civilization, which
had collapsed by then .
• The Babylonian’s used the cuneiform system of writing on clay
tablets with reed styluses
BABYLONIAN ASTRONOMY

• Some of the earliest , reasonably reliable records of the

positions of the stars and planets were made by
Babylonians, who developed a complex system of
recording them.
MESPOTAMIA NUMBERS

• Throughout the Mesopotamian civilization, from sumer to

Babylonian, a unique number system was used based on
the number 60 , not on the familiar base 10 used in the
most other cultures.
SEXAGESIMAL NUMBER

• In the sexagesimal i.e. 60- based, system, there are

different combinations of characters for each
number from 1 to 59.
• Then
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