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167 so of the preoccupations and predictions regarding the Re- turning Planet that we find in the tales of the Exodus, Balaam, and Akhenaten’s Egypt, Babylon itself started to provide evi- dence of such wide-spreading expectations, and the most prominent clue was the Sign of the Cross. In Babylon, the time was that of the Kassite dynasty, of which we have written earlier. Little has remained of their reign in Babylon itself, and as stated earlier those kings did not excel in keeping royal records. But they did leave behind telltale depictions—and international correspondence of let- ters on clay tablets. It was in the ruins of Akhet-Aten, Akhenaten’s capital—a site now known as Tell el-Amarna in Egypt—that the famed “el-Amarna Tablets” were discovered. Of the 380 clay tablets, all except three were inscribed in the Akkadian language, which was then the language of international diplomacy. While some of the tablets represented copies of royal letters sent from the Egyptian court, the bulk were original letters received from foreign kings. The cache was the royal diplomatic archive of Akhenaten, and the tablets were predominantly correspondence he had received from the kings of Babylon! Did Akhenaten use those exchanges of letters with his counterparts in Babylon to tell them of his newfound Aten religion? We really don’t know, for all we have are a Babylo- nian king’s letters to Akhenaten in which he complained that gold sent to him was found short in weight, that his ambas- sadors were robbed on the way to Egypt, or that the Egyptian king failed to inquire about his health. Yet the frequent ex- changes of ambassadors and other emissaries, even offers of intermarriage, as well as the calling of the Egyptian king “my brother” by the Babylonian king, must lead to a conclu- sion that the hierarchy in Babylon was fully aware of the re- ligious goings-on in Egypt; and if Babylon wondered, “What is this “Ra as a Returning Star’ commotion?” Babylon must have realized that it was a reference to “Marduk as a Return- ing Planet”—to Nibiru orbiting back. With the tradition of celestial observations so much older and more advanced in Mesopotamia than in Egypt, it is of The Cross on the Horizon