Caption: Babylonian cosmology?

Aside from purely mythological conceptions (see Wikipedia: Babylonian religion: Mythology and cosmology; Wikipedia: Mesopotamian myths), what the Sumerians thought of the physical universe is totally lost and even the later Babylonian astronomers didn't leave us much explication of their Babylonian physical/philosophical cosmology (see Wikipedia: Babylonian astronomy: Babylonian cosmology).

What they did say seems very obscure and it seems likely to yours truly that in their everyday lives ancient Babylonians probably usually thought the sky was a big dome over Tigris-Euphrates River area which was traversed daily by the astronomical objects as the image depicts.

Tigris-Euphrates River area and surroundings which is all the ancient Babylonians knew was probably thought of as a flat Earth.

When not on the big dome of the sky, astro-bodies traveled under the flat Earth in the underworld. But where the dome passed below the flat Earth must be far off since no one had ever been there or even got close to it.

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