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Babylonian tablets reveal kings installed royal doubles during eclipses, then executed themBabylonian kings routinely sacrificed royal stand-ins to avoid eclipse prophecies. From the museum's collection of 130,000 ...
Kings in ancient Mesopotamia didn't rely on those eclipse omens alone to predict what was coming. "If the prediction associated with a given omen was threatening, for example, 'a king will die ...
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