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Research ers finally deciphered a set of 4,000-year-old Babylon ian tablets — and the messages aren’t about bright hopes for the future but are nearly all death, doom and gloom.
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. The omens inscribed on the tablets include “a king will die, destruction of Elam,” an area in Mesopotamia in what is now Iran, if “an eclipse becomes obscured from its center all at once clear all at once.”
“The origins of some of the omens may have lain in actual experience — observation of portent followed by catastrophe,” he told Live Science.The tablets likely originate from Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city southwest of what is now Baghdad, according to the professor.“Those who advised the king kept watch on the night sky and would match their observations with the academic corpus of celestial-omen texts,” the authors wrote in the study.
Or the Babylonians would appoint a substitute king ahead of the forthcoming danger so that person would bear the brunt of the gods’ wrath — and eventually be killed — while the real king would remain unharmed,
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