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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/Wagamaga on 2024-08-19 07:24:48+00:00.

Original Title: 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