Babylonia

Babylon was the capital of ancient Babylonia.

A sexagesimal system was used in Babylonia. Therefore an hour has sixty minutes and a day has twenty-four hours.

The people of ancient Babylonia and Persia began their new year on March twenty-first, the first day of spring.

It is in the cuneiform records of Babylonia that we catch the first glimpse of the early history of Canaan.

In Babylonia the sacred tree was no doubt closely associated with Istar, the divine mother, who was originally not a Semitic, but an Accadian goddess, and whose cult, together with that of her bridegroom Tammuz, was introduced into Chaldaea from Eridu, a city which flourished on the shores of the Persian Gulf between 3000 and 4000 B.C.