Geographical sites:

  • Babylon (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #727082)
    Pleiades_icon Babylon settlement, fort Geocontext: Fostat, Cairo
    Description: An ancient fortified city of the Delta of Egypt, located at Babylon in the area today known as Coptic Cairo.

Citations:

Text #3820

Sachs & Hunger. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia
[p. 427]

BM 34915
‘Rev.
9’ – That month, night of the 5th, a “fall of fire”

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