A Sumerian Clay Tablet That Recorded an Extinction  And Scientists Can't Find What Caused It

A Sumerian Clay Tablet That Recorded an Extinction And Scientists Can't Find What Caused It

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Apr 28, 2026

There are clay tablets sitting in a museum in Philadelphia right now. They've been there since the 1800s. And for over a century everyone treated them as religious poetry.
Then climate scientists started pulling ice cores from Greenland. And sediment from lake beds across the Middl …