Ancient Observations of Lunar Eclipses
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•'A king will die': 4,000-year-old lunar eclipse omen tablets finally deciphered
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4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets were found more than 100 years ago in Iraq .
They describe how some lunar eclipses were omens of death, destruction and pestilence.
The authors of the tablets used the time of night, movement of shadows and the date and duration of eclipses to predict omens.
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