[AZLiberty]

A “mile-wide asteroid” would have done a lot more damage than this article accounts for.

[martin_fierro]

Ping

[Wiseghy]

This is the first I’ve heard of an impact in Europe at this time.
Hard to believe a major impact in such a gorgeous area; this is no Tunguska. ;->

[mamelukesabre]

bump for later

[sinanju]

3123 BC is too long before any known form of writing. Cuneiform included.

[Ciexyz]

Coast to Coast will surely be covering this soon.

[Judith Anne]

Fascinating...

[UCANSEE2]

I wonder how much of their ‘reconstruction’ was to the missing contents of the stone itself.

It appears that several large sections are missing and were filled in with playdough.

[doug from upland]

I might make one of those clay tablets and sell it on ebay.

[Ka-leo-lani]

The scientists were a historian who thinks spaceships crash on earth, a managing director of a space propulsion company and a lecturer in astronautics? I am big large great brilliant enormous squatting scientist too!

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[Malsua]

A historian from Azerbaijan, who believes humans originally came to Earth from another planet, has interpreted it as a description of the arrival of a spaceship

That would be Zecharia Sitchin. I've read his books, they are interesting but I don't believe the same conclusions he comes to.

[SunkenCiv]

Asteroids: Deadly Impact National Geographic

[SunkenCiv]

Meteor clue to end of Middle East civilisations
by Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent

"Studies of satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide circular depression which scientists say bears all the hallmarks of an impact crater. If confirmed, it would point to the Middle East being struck by a meteor with the violence equivalent to hundreds of nuclear bombs.

"The catastrophic effect of these could explain the mystery of why so many early cultures went into sudden decline around 2300 BC. They include the demise of the Akkad culture of central Iraq, with its mysterious semi-mythological emperor Sargon; the end of the fifth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom, following the building of the Great Pyramids and the sudden disappearance of hundreds of early settlements in the Holy Land."

[SunkenCiv]

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A Sumerian Observation of the Kofels' Impact Event by Alan Bond and Mark Hempsell	Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society ed by Peter T. Bobrowsky and Hans Rickman intro (PDF) due to links here

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[SunkenCiv]

http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/tilmari/tilmari.htm

http://www.sis-group.org.uk/cambconf.htm

dead links (didn’t check ‘em on Wayback)

http://www.sis-group.org.uk/abstract/bailey.htm
http://www.meteor.co.nz/nov97_1.html