The tablets, written in Old Babylonian between 1900-1600 BCE, contain humanity's earliest known eclipse omens - 61 terrifying predictions. — Read the rest The post Babylonian tablets reveal ...

4,000-Year-Old Babylonian Tablets Reveal Eerie Lunar Eclipse Prophecies The four clay tablets, inscribed with cuneiform script, were discovered over a century ago in present-day Iraq and are part ...

The only other eclipse omens discovered from Old Babylonia are a collection of 32 tablets that were also found near the Euphrates river. But these do not specify between lunar and solar eclipses.

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 clay tablets feature text written in cuneiform, an ancient script generally considered to be the oldest known writing system, and represent the oldest known lunar eclipse omens from any part ...

Deciphering a 4,000-year-old clay tablet found in what is now Iraq has revealed that it contains inscriptions ... Old Babylonian Lunar-Eclipse Omen Tablets in the British Museum: Journal of ...

News; Weird News; Lunar eclipse; Ancient 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets finally deciphered - with ominous predictions Newly deciphered texts found on tablets around 4,000 years old predict ...

Decoded 4000-year-old Babylonian tablets reveal detailed omens linked to lunar eclipses, predicting war and Kings’ fates. Ancient astronomers of Babylon appear to have been poetically on the ...

The provenance of the tablets remains murky and are believed to have been purchased by the British Museum from a range of Babylonian antique traders predominantly during the final decade of the 1800s.

Scientists Decipher 4,000-Year-Old Babylonian Tablets, Find Ominous Predictions One tablet forewarns the ‘downfall of Subartu and Akkad’ if ‘an eclipse begins in the south and then clears.’ The ...

The clay tablets feature text written in cuneiform, ... Old Babylonian Lunar-Eclipse Omen Tablets in the British Museum. Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 76, 127–161.

When the Moon fully slips into Earth's shadow, a king shall die. So warns an ominous prediction from Old Babylonia, inscribed across several ancient clay tablets. For over a century now, these ...