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Ancient Assyrian Tablet May Record Asteroid Strike That Hit Austria in 3123 BC
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The Asteroid Behind the Bible's Most Famous Disaster
"An object that big, that low, moving that fast doesn't stop at the horizon. It keeps going. They drew the line on a map. Northwest across Iraq. Across Turkey. Across the Balkans. 2,000 miles until the line ran straight into the side of a mountain. A valley in the Ostfalen Alps. A place called Kofels."
Rocket scientists Allan Bond and Mark Hempsell analyzed a 5,000-year-old clay tablet from Nineveh's library, arguing it maps an asteroid trajectory culminating at Kofels, Austria on June 29, 3123 BC. Using planetarium software to reconstruct ancient star positions, they traced a path from Mesopotamia to the Alps where a massive landslide shows evidence of melted rock and shock fractures. Mainstream assyriologists dispute their translation, seeing a ritual calendar rather than an eyewitness account.
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