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When Were Tarot Cards Invented & When To Read

When were tarot cards created?

Around 1440–1460 in northern Italy — the Visconti-Sforza commissions are the earliest named decks, made as game cards for wealthy families. Divination use arrived around Etteilla's 1780s French tarot, and the standard 78-card structure with meanings consolidated in 1909 with Rider–Waite. Any claim of ancient Egyptian origins is 18th-century marketing.

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