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Note: We are now fully booked for this event and are only accepting names for the wait-list. The fourth lecture will discuss the scholars who pursued astronomy and their institutional, religious, social and economic context. This takes us to the main temples of Babylon and Uruk, in which most of the Babylonian astronomers were employed during the second half of the first millennium BCE. The lecture will also explore how the astral sciences were increasingly linked to other branches of Babylonian scholarship and what role astronomy and astrology played in Babylonian society.