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In the Yale Babylonian Collection sits a clay tablet from southern Mesopotamia. Catalog number YBC 11924. It describes the appearance of a second sun, utu-tab in Sumerian, "sun-twin", that stood in the sky beside the regular sun for forty days during the seventh year of King Naram-Sin of Akkad.
The year was 2247 BCE. The same year the rains stopped. The same year the Akkadian Empire began collapsing.
The same year four of Earth's largest civilizations fell within a single century, an event geologists now call the 4.2-kiloyear event.
The scribe wrote that the second sun did not vanish. It went into the place where it waits.