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2. 4,000-Year-Old Babylonian Tablets Containing Evil Omens ...

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   The clay tablets have cuneiform inscriptions (wedge-shaped characters used in ancient writing systems) that “represent the oldest examples of compendia of lunar-eclipse omens yet discovered ...

3. Archaeologists Finally Decoded a 4,000-Year-Old Tablet—and It ...

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   Reading the spoken and written word inscribed on cuneiform tablets can help create an accurate picture of what life and culture may have looked like 2,000 to 4,500 years ago, according to George.

4. Babylonian astronomical diaries - Wikipedia

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   An astronomical diary recording the death of Alexander the Great (British Museum). The Babylonian astronomical diaries are a collection of Babylonian cuneiform texts written in Akkadian language that contain systematic records of astronomical observations and political events, predictions based on astronomical observations, weather reports, and commodity prices, kept for about 600 years, from ...

5. Babylonian astronomy - Wikipedia

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   The Enuma Anu Enlil is a series of cuneiform tablets that gives insight on different sky omens Babylonian astronomers observed. [17] Celestial bodies such as the Sun and Moon were given significant power as omens. Reports from Nineveh and Babylon, circa 2500-670 B.C., show lunar omens observed by the Mesopotamians. "When the moon disappears ...

6. Enuma Anu Enlil - Wikipedia

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   The omens from this section, like those quoted above, are the most frequently used in the whole corpus. This section is framed by tablet 14, which details a basic mathematical scheme for predicting the visibility of the moon. Tablets 15 to 22 are dedicated to lunar eclipses. It uses many forms of encoding, such as the date, watches of the night ...

7. Archaeologists Uncovered a Mysterious Ancient Tablet With ...

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   There have been other similar discoveries in the region, including another cuneiform tablet that details the purchase of an entire city (and, presumably, the furniture in it), which was uncovered ...

8. Chronology of the ancient Near East - Wikipedia

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   [25] [26] Most calculations for dating using eclipses have assumed the Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa to be a legitimate source. [8] [27] The most notable omitted eclipses are the Mari Eponym Chronicle eclipse from the time of Shamshi-Adad I and the Sargon of Akkad eclipse (from the Legends of the Kings of Akkad and a liver omen). [28] [29]

9. Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal - Wikipedia

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   The 2019 book Tablets From the Irisaĝrig Archive mentions the scandal in its analysis of more than one thousand cuneiform tablets, possibly stolen from Irisaĝrig, a 4,000-year-old lost city in Iraq. [23] The tablets, purchased by Hobby Lobby, were studied over a four-year period while in the company's Oklahoma storerooms.