ASTROLOGY

It is the most ancient because astrology has been in existence as far back as we have been able to investigate the history of mankind.

Astrological inscriptions have been found on bone remnants from the Sumerian civilization which existed twenty-five thousand years before Jesus.

Bone remnants have been discovered with astrological inscriptions and with an outline of the moon's orbit in the sky.

But in India this science is even older. In the Rigveda reference is made to a certain constellation of the stars which could only have occurred several (ninety-five) thousand years ago.

Because of this,Lokmanya Tilakconcluded that the Vedas must certainly be even more ancient: the constellation of the stars as the Vedas describe it could only have occurred at a certain moment ninety-five thousand years ago;

so that particular vedic reference must be at least ninety-five thousand years old. That particular vedic reference could not have been added at a later period.

Other, younger generations would not have been able to work out a constellation that existed many years before.

But now we have scientific methods which we can use to discover where the stars were at a particular moment in the distant past.  

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