Wednesday, 6 July 2011

archaeology - How to read Babylonians' tablet that were used to track Jupiter's movements?

There is a science news article on how Babylonians used geometry to track Jupiter’s movements.



Here is an image of cuneiform tablet which shows Jupiter's movements.





From a layman's point of view, it looks like someone engraved gibberish on a tablet. How do we even know it was used to track Jupiter's movements.



Can anyone translate this? Thanks.

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