Apocalyptic scenarios in Babylonian tablets finally translated: Food shortages will occur, locust swarms will invade...

The translation of a four-thousand-year-old tablet found in Iraq has been completed. The newly deciphered tablet consists of four fragments and contains a total of 61 prophecies about the future. The Babylonian civilization, which studied astronomy and the movements of the Moon, associated developments in the sky with historical events. Researchers believe that ancient seers created their prophecies in this way.

The tablets were added to the British Museum's collection between 1892 and 1914. This cuneiform tablet, which has been fully translated for the first time, contains prophecies about the future. The prophecies generally speak of harsh environmental factors, the deaths of kings, and the fall of nations.

A few of these prophecies are as follows:

In the spring, a swarm of locusts will appear and strike the crops, the crops of my land. A food shortage will occur.

There will be rain and floodwaters, and Adad will devastate the threshing floors.

An attack will be launched on the country by an Elamite army, a Gutian army. It will destroy the rebelling country. The country will perish.

As for a rebelling country, the enemy will tear down the cities, the city walls, my city walls, the walls of our city.

It is believed that the tablets originated from the thriving city of Sippar, in present-day Iraq, during the Babylonian Empire, and date back to the middle and late Old Babylonian periods between 1894 and 1595 BC.

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