In ancient times there is no question whatever that the heavens attracted a great deal of attention, but it was not until practically the Greek Age that the science of Astronomy, as we know it, began to take form.
It is quite likely, that there had been a previous knowledge of the movements of the heavenly bodies, and theories had no doubt been formed, say, at the date of the building of the. Pyramids, or in some more ancient period still, but that knowledge probably had been lost, because at the time of Hypercas, who was the greatest astronomer of the Grecian Age, there was practically very little accurate knowledge won these questions.
