42. Ammizaduga times 2

For more than a century, researchers have tried to make sense of the observations recorded in the Venus Tablet. Typically they eliminate the records that do not fit, and alter the text they deem scribal error. In recent years, statistical analysis was enlisted to work out the most probable result. The dates are now reduced to a few contending chronologies - high, middle and low, all in the 2nd millennium BC. This vagueness is typical of astronomical chronology prior to the 8th century BC.