Zodiac constellations can be traced even further back, to Bronze Age (First Babylonian dynasty) sources, including Gemini "The Twins", from MAŠ.TAB.BA.GAL.GAL "The Great Twins", and Cancer "The Crab", from AL.LUL "The Crayfish", among others. Around the end of the 5th century BC, Babylonian astronomers divided the ecliptic into twelve equal "signs", by analogy to twelve schematic months of thirty days each. Each sign contained thirty degrees of celestial longitude, thus creating the first known celestial coordinate system. Unlike modern astronomers, who place the beginning of the sign of Aries at the place of the Sun at the vernal equinox; Babylonian astronomers
Zodiac: Signs of the Apocalypse Zodiac: Signs of the Apocalypse Zodiac: Signs of the Apocalypse is a 2014 Canadian science fiction disaster television film directed for Syfy by (William) David Hogan as W.D. Hogan. When archaeologists unearth a 2,000-year-old astrology carving in a Peruvian lead mine, global cataclysms start to destroy the globe: explosive meteor storms, tsunamis, lightning storms, lava geysers and giant waterspouts erupt everywhere, each disaster corresponding to a specific sign of the zodiac. While the artifact discovered in the dig falls into the wrong hands of a government agency that kills to hide the secret, a divorced university professor, his estranged son