An old clay disc
An ancient clay disc, currently in the British Museum, has baffled experts for more than 150 years. The disc is known as Cuneiform
The inscriptions on the disc were only translated about 10 years ago, and it turns out that the clay disc is an actual ancient Sumerian star map.
Final translations and analyzes revealed amazing details about the clay tablet, which was extracted in the nineteenth century from a secret library belonging to King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, Iraq, by the British archaeologist Sir Henry Layard.
It turns out that the ancient Sumerians engraved the surface of the disk to tell the details of a huge visible object that they saw in space, as it penetrated the Earth’s atmosphere and fell to the surface of the Earth.Experts discovered that the tablet is a copy of a set of observations recorded by an ancient Sumerian astronomer who was interested in observing space and the sky. The Sumerian scientist described the object coming from the sky as looking like “an approaching white stone bowl...” The clay tablet is also an astronomical map, as it includes a set of complex drawings of the constellations and their names.
This information suggests that the space asteroid most likely collided with a mountain on its way down.Experts explain that when it made its way into the valley, the asteroid turned into a huge fireball
This caused the rocks to be crushed and turned into a non-solid body, so it did not leave traces of a hole or crater at the site of the impact with the ground.
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