Heavenly Writing, The: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture by Francesca Rochberg

Heavenly Writing, The: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture

Francesca Rochberg

331 pages first pub 2004 (view editions)

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In antiquity, the expertise of the Babylonians in matters of the heavens was legendary and the roots of both western astronomy and astrology are traceable in cuneiform tablets going back to the second and first millennia BC. The Heavenly Writing d...

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