An ancient tablet has been completely translated and it has some pretty terrifying predictions for humanity.
And no, I’m not talking about some rogue iPad-like device belonging to Baba Vanga or an old document from the creator of The Simpsons laying out predictions for the future.
But rather some 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets added to the British Museum’s collection decades ago. Despite being found over 100 years ago in what is now Iraq, the artefacts have only just now been completely translated.
The text is spread across four clay tablets and contains a whopping 61 predictions.Its authors used the likes of time of night, movement of shadows and the date and duration of eclipses to predict omens.One omen stated that if ‘an eclipse becomes obscured from its centre all at once [and] clear all at once: a king will die, destruction of Elam’.
Centred in what is now Iran, Elam was an area in Mesopotamia.
Another omen on these ancient tablets says if: “An eclipse begins in the south and then clears: downfall of Subartu and Akkad.” These were both regions in Mesopotamia at the time.
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