One of the greatest secrets of civilization – the mysterious tiles from Babylon – was solved. And in it is found a prophecy that may have come true with the wars and pandemics of today.
Four clay tablets found in Iraq more than 100 years ago have been deciphered. According to experts, the text predicts the fall of civilizations and kings, and also conveys signs related to lunar eclipses. The authors of the study, Andrew George and Junko Taniguchi, write more about this, writes BLITZ.
These tablets are part of the British Museum collection and are written in cuneiform, a written language used in the ancient Near East.
Among other things, the deciphered texts speak of the death of the king, an illness that will lead to chaos, an invasion of locusts, the death of livestock and the fall of the “great army”, reports The Mirror, quoted by glasnews.bg.
The plates were probably written during the Babylonian Empire, which existed from about 1890 BC. to 224 AD. Researchers George and Taniguchi write in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies that people at the time believed that signs in the sky were placed by the gods as warnings about the future of people living on earth.
They added: “Those who advised the king observed the night sky and checked their observations against an academic corpus of texts on celestial phenomena.”
Further verification of the omens was done through a process known as “extispicia” – divination by the entrails of sacrificial animals. According to George and Taniguchi, this involved examining the animals’ entrails to determine if the king was in real danger.
NASA notes that ancient civilizations knew how to predict eclipses and made sure to appoint “backup” kings to bear the brunt of God’s wrath. The current monarch remained unharmed to ensure continuity of government policy.
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