An inscription on a 3,500-year-old stone block from Egypt that could be one of the world’s oldest weather reports could help rewrite the history of a Pharoah.A new translation of a 40-line inscription on the 6-foot-tall calcite block called the Tempest Stela describes rain, darkness and ‘the sky being in storm without cessation, louder than the cries of the masses.’
Is this the first weather report? How a 3,500 year old inscription revealing a ‘tempest of rain’ could rewrite Egyptian history
An inscription on a 3,500-year-old stone block from Egypt that could be one of the world’s oldest weather reports could help rewrite the history of a Pharoah.A new translation of a 40-line inscription on the 6-foot-tall calcite block called the Tempest Stela describes rain, darkness and ‘the sky being in storm without cessation, louder than…
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