Researchers have finally deciphered 4,000-year-old tablets found more than 100 years ago in modern-day Iraq.
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,” wrote Andrew George and Junko Taniguchi, the authors of the study published in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies.
