New York Post Researchers finally deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets — and the messages aren’t about bright hopes for the future but are nearly all death, doom and gloom.
The four clay tablets that have cuneiform scrawled across them predict the deaths of kings and the downfalls of civilizations, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies.
The ancient artifacts were discovered more than 100 years ago in present-day Iraq and are a part of the British Museum’s collection but only now have been translated into modern language.
The fortune-telling from the peoples of southern Mesopotamia was based on the movement of the moon, specifically lunar eclipses — when the moon falls behind the Earth’s shadow.
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