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The Babylonians adopted and added to ancient Sumerian sky lore, their calendar and scientific knowledge. Hundreds of Babylonian clay tablets noting scientific and astronomical subjects have been discovered. The Babylonians acknowledged the ‘morning star’ and the ‘evening star’ to be a single object –the planet Venus. Lunar eclipses were capable of being predicted with reasonable accuracy.

Babylonian world map, early 5th century BC on a clay tablet, shows a flat, round world with Babylonia at the centre. Eighteen of the animal constellations are named on the tablet.