Assyria

=Assyria Astronomy=

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View of the Earth in Relation to Celestial objects

There were many ancient cultures that studied astronomy, the assyrian culture was just one of many. They studied many celestial objects and how they moved through the sky. Assyria was located near present day iraq as in the first location tab. They found many other celestial bodies besides the stars such as the sun, moon, venus, saturn, mars, and jupiter. They had there own names for these planets and other celestial objects becuase of there own language. They had there own calender they had three diffenet ways the calenders went by, lunar, lunisolar and schematic year and they had 360 days in there calendar and it is still unclear why. They did believe the earth was flat like many cultures and that everything reloved around the earth.