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4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets finally deciphered


4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets finally deciphered

Researchers have finally deciphered a series of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets – and the messages are not about bright hopes for the future, but almost exclusively about death, doom and darkness. The four clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script predict the death of kings and the fall of civilizations, according to a study recently published in […]