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The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture.(Book review)
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The Historian
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June 22, 2006| Author:
Yamauchi, Edwin M.
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The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. By Francesca Rochberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxvi, 331. $70.00.)
Next to writing itself, the greatest cultural legacy of the world's oldest civilization, that of Mesopotamia, is its development of astrology/astronomy, seen not only in Western but also in Eastern civilization as horoscopes in newspapers and zodiac place mats in Chinese restaurants attest. France...