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Researchers decipher 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets predicting doom

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4,000-year-old writings on ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets have been deciphered.

The ancient texts were written by astrologers from the Mesopotamian civilisation.

They are the oldest known records of lunar eclipse omens dating back to 1200 BC .

One tablet notes that an eclipse in the morning watch’ means “the end of a dynasty’.

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