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Writer Fuel: 4,000 Year Old Omen Deciphered: “A King Will Die”

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This photo shows one of the cuneiform tablets the researchers deciphered. (Image credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum)

Scholars have finally deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets found more than 100 years ago in what is now Iraq. The tablets describe how some lunar eclipses are omens of death, destruction and pestilence. The four clay tablets “represent the oldest examples of compendia of lunar-eclipse omens yet discovered” Andrew George, an emeritus professor of Babylonian at … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Ancient Language Decoded?

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Cuneiform writing - Deposit Photos

A mysterious ancient writing system called Linear Elamite, used between about 2300 B.C. and 1800 B.C. in what is now southern Iran, might have finally been deciphered, although some experts are skeptical about the findings. What’s more, it’s unclear whether all the artifacts used to decipher the writings were legally acquired. Only about 40 known … Read more