Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Like a translation of somebody sharing this knowledge in two different languages. And there are a host of other kind of threads like that that show how it goes from Babylonia into Greece and then beyond. And the zodiac in use today is the same zodiac that comes from Babylonia. The 60-minute hour comes from the units of measurement that they use today.

for time, as well as the degrees system that they use. So the legacy of Babylonian science is very much a part of how we still do science, even if their goals or maybe what they were doing with it was slightly different. It was obviously powerful enough of an organizational system to survive into other cultures and beyond, even if cuneiform dies out.

for time, as well as the degrees system that they use. So the legacy of Babylonian science is very much a part of how we still do science, even if their goals or maybe what they were doing with it was slightly different. It was obviously powerful enough of an organizational system to survive into other cultures and beyond, even if cuneiform dies out.

for time, as well as the degrees system that they use. So the legacy of Babylonian science is very much a part of how we still do science, even if their goals or maybe what they were doing with it was slightly different. It was obviously powerful enough of an organizational system to survive into other cultures and beyond, even if cuneiform dies out.

I mean, the last datable tablet is from 79 to 80 CE, and it's an astronomical almanac of predictions and records for a particular year.

I mean, the last datable tablet is from 79 to 80 CE, and it's an astronomical almanac of predictions and records for a particular year.

I mean, the last datable tablet is from 79 to 80 CE, and it's an astronomical almanac of predictions and records for a particular year.

I would love to make a sort of overarching point, which is that, you know, people back then were interested in trying to make sense of the world just as we are today.

I would love to make a sort of overarching point, which is that, you know, people back then were interested in trying to make sense of the world just as we are today.

I would love to make a sort of overarching point, which is that, you know, people back then were interested in trying to make sense of the world just as we are today.

And they did it in really systematic ways, according to sets of rules that they followed that maybe don't make that much sense to us or that maybe never wrote those rules down, but we can extrapolate them from the thousands and thousands and thousands of tablets that they've left behind. There's something really meaningful and moving about the fact that people were just as intelligent.

And they did it in really systematic ways, according to sets of rules that they followed that maybe don't make that much sense to us or that maybe never wrote those rules down, but we can extrapolate them from the thousands and thousands and thousands of tablets that they've left behind. There's something really meaningful and moving about the fact that people were just as intelligent.

And they did it in really systematic ways, according to sets of rules that they followed that maybe don't make that much sense to us or that maybe never wrote those rules down, but we can extrapolate them from the thousands and thousands and thousands of tablets that they've left behind. There's something really meaningful and moving about the fact that people were just as intelligent.

They had just as innovative moments. leaps as we might have today thousands of years ago and they are looking at the same sky i mean not the same sky i see here at oxford with eight stars but you know the incredible you know endless universe that they were trying to make sense of and i think that's really beautiful

They had just as innovative moments. leaps as we might have today thousands of years ago and they are looking at the same sky i mean not the same sky i see here at oxford with eight stars but you know the incredible you know endless universe that they were trying to make sense of and i think that's really beautiful

They had just as innovative moments. leaps as we might have today thousands of years ago and they are looking at the same sky i mean not the same sky i see here at oxford with eight stars but you know the incredible you know endless universe that they were trying to make sense of and i think that's really beautiful

Between Two Rivers, Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History.

Between Two Rivers, Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History.

Between Two Rivers, Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History.

Thank you so much for having me.