Celestial / Fire in the sky

300BC

Event #2838: "Fall of fire" observed by Babylonians

Stable URL: http://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/2838

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 #3921

Sachs & Hunger. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia
[p. 255]

300 BC

BM 40079

‘Obv.’
10’ - […] on the 6th there was a “fall of fire” in the district of A-HA.

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