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Ancient clay tablet deciphered, may solve asteroid mystery

telegraph.co.uk — British scientists have finally deciphered a mysterious ancient Assyrian clay tablet discovered 150 years ago, and believe they have solved a riddle over a giant asteroid impact more than 5,000 years ago in an area that is now the Austrian Alps.

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  • covertress, on 03/31/2008, -2/+26"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." [is he serious?!]
    • Nougat, on 03/31/2008, -4/+26Scientologist.
      • DanBoodro, on 03/31/2008, -2/+3You're right, that's the stuff Scientology is made of. And you know they'll be the first ones to claim this when they hear about it.
      • ElWizardo, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3I know that disc... It was considered to be a copy of Enlil's Tablet of Fate. The tablets gave directions for the Annunaki (The Gods) to come to Earth from heaven. The Sumerians knew we had 9 planets long before Pluto was discovered in the 1930's. We also get the term 7th Heaven from them as well. We consider ourselves the 3rd rock from the sun... but coming in from outside Pluto we are the 7th orbiting body. Nineveh was originally a Sumerian city until the Babylonians Empire rose. The Sumerians are considered to be the creaters of the first bible stories... but with multiple gods.
        • Nougat, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1DUHHH Pluto isn't a planet.
          • ElWizardo, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1Did you know it once was?
          • lydecker, on 04/01/2008, -1/+1It once was considered a planet, I don't believe it ever was one by current definition. I think it is said to be a trapped comet. It's undoubtedly been the topic of much debate, and it's not unreasonable to think Sumerians had a slightly different definition of planets.
          • Nougat, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1WHOOSH
          • ElWizardo, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1I've always understood Pluto to be a be a displaced moon of Neptune or Saturn.
    • omgwhereami, on 03/31/2008, -2/+2Yes. I find it very disturbing too.
    • franklymister, on 03/31/2008, -1/+9I have always wondered about the people who have that theory. For humans to have come from another planet, every other species on earth, plant and animal, would have to have come from the same place, since we share evolutionary history with every living thing on this planet.

      • Harabeck, on 03/31/2008, -2/+1We would have also had to forget that techonology and go back to much brick houses and throwing rocks...
        • inajeep, on 03/31/2008, -0/+5Which could happen in about two generations or less.
          • franklymister, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2Or by taking a trip to Kabul...
          • Terr01, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Nah, in Kabul aren't you lucky if it's *just* rocks?
    • daivos, on 03/31/2008, -1/+6The writer is referring to a previous historian who took a crack at solving the tablet's meaning. Not what was most recently found. The writer is putting into perspective all the different theories around the tablet prior to now. Did you not read past that paragraph?
      • truthliesverbs, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1digg needs some sort of idiot filter. It's like he didn't read the article and just felt the urge to contribute his meaningless comment to spam everyone's mind with his mental sludge.
    • Tomchei, on 03/31/2008, -0/+5Well, you could call it a spaceship but it's a spaceship that looks like a DC-9.
    • verkon, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1We all know Humans originated on earth, but was brought from earth by false gods as slaves.
    • forgiste, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1I'd say that at least some genetic material came here on an asteroid, and fertilized the planet.
  • queenmoweeny, on 03/31/2008, -10/+8These kind of findings are very interesting to me.
    • Gutterpunk, on 03/31/2008, -3/+5Me too. Especially stuff like "the asteroid left no crater because it clipped a mountain and turned into a fireball. Mr Hempsell said: "The ground heating, though very short, would be enough to ignite any flammable material, including human hair and clothes."

      This happened in 3123 BC... Looks like if Sodom and Gomorrah was the first "Based on a true story!" fiction ever!
  • snds, on 03/31/2008, -10/+5Perhaps they'll find a series of cover stones covering a big round device the looks like a portal and we'll find out that the pyramids were landing pads for alien spaceships...oh wait this isn't Stargate...

    -End Sarcasm-
    • MiDri, on 03/31/2008, -3/+3Danial Jackson?
    • TheMadPoet, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Well, how do we know that Stargate the series isn't a secret government program to prepare the general public for the eventual disclosure of the Stargate program for realz? And hey, who buried your reference anyway? They need to go watch more TV and kill their brain cells!
  • richardthames, on 03/31/2008, -15/+0Least commented front page story ever. Lame.
    • ligyron, on 03/31/2008, -3/+0Naa, the "Yahoo Launching Site for Women 25-54" story was on front page with 0 comments
  • dhusk, on 03/31/2008, -6/+0Very interesting, if true, but they need to find the smoking gun--the impact crater, or if it was like Tunguska, evidence of a nuclear-level explosion--before their theories will gain any real traction.
  • 0crabby0, on 03/31/2008, -0/+5Too bad the impact was after Ötzi's time.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi_the_Iceman
    Ötzi was the Bruce Willis of his time.
    • 1timeuser, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2How do you say "Yippy Ki-Yay Mother *****" in his language?
  • MrFunStuff, on 03/31/2008, -6/+3The Sumerian s have the truth history of humanity and are origin. see for yourself

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-135684362 ...
    • Namingway, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2watched the video, very cool & it is hosted by that guy from quantum leap.. even better :)
  • ijake, on 03/31/2008, -2/+6Cthulhu LIVES!
    • nbcaffeine, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Speaking of which, why are there no direct flights to R'lyeh this time of year?
      • TheMadPoet, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1The stars are not right. But soon they will be... (cue ominous music)
  • crazyeyezkilla, on 03/31/2008, -4/+4there are so many things wrong with this article.
  • jefuchs, on 03/31/2008, -1/+13The Sumerians invented the backwards b... now known as "d."
  • alealea, on 03/31/2008, -5/+1I bet the clays writes about the birth of Messiah announced by the big "star". And the star was followed by the wise men etc... Actually I am wrong, that happened 5000 years later, but still I bet the stone tells the story of the birth of some Messiah and the "star" showed the way...
    • spoons10, on 03/31/2008, -2/+0I agree, I believe that the idea of "humans bring brought to this world by an astroid" meaning is not as explicit as these readers make it out to be. Rather, there is the chance that humans, life, dogs, or cats are all a cosmic accident.
    • erkokite, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Asteroid events, comets, etc... are not as uncommon as you may think. Your analysis really is kinda baseless. There was no mention of any messiah in the article, and other than Judeo-Christian belief, which really wasn't around in the form you know of at the time, there really is no reason to think such a thing.
      • alealea, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Come on, It was supposed to be a joke :) On the serious side, whenever I see asteroid in the sky or read about one I can't help it but think that there are some old folks riding their way on the camels through the desert trying to find where the asteroid will stop in the sky...
    • ElWizardo, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2A Re-Post:

      I know that disc... It was considered to be a copy of Enlil's Tablet of Fate. The tablets gave directions for the Annunaki (The Gods) to come to Earth from heaven. The Sumerians knew we had 9 planets long before Pluto was discovered in the 1930's. We also get the term 7th Heaven from them as well. We consider ourselves the 3rd rock from the sun... but coming in from outside Pluto we are the 7th orbiting body. Nineveh was originally a Sumerian city until the Babylonians Empire rose. The Sumerians are considered to be the creaters of the first bible stories... but with multiple gods.
  • Hetman, on 03/31/2008, -2/+2Big Rock hmm Hit ground, God Angry. That is what I hope was on the clay tablet.
  • ElFredo, on 03/31/2008, -0/+7Here is the location of Köfles (not Köfels) in the Austrian Tirol (Google Maps):

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=K ...

    You can spot the strange geological feature in the center of the above map (that's the big dark green stuff), it cuts the valley in half between Köfles and Niederthai W-E, and Umhausen and Winklen N-S. Also, notice how the mountain ridge west to Köfles seems "clipped" compared to the above mountain.

    Also check the following site. It features an animation of a supposed landslide at the same location:

    http://info.tuwien.ac.at/geophysik/research/landsl ...
  • jull1234, on 03/31/2008, -5/+3In other news, ancient Clay Aiken in concert next week.
  • AndreiOttawa, on 03/31/2008, -0/+4It's actually pretty cool that an item carrying information survived for such a long time. What will modern civilization leave behind that can be deciphered and read thousands of years from now?
  • X9001, on 03/31/2008, -0/+18It was an AOL disk all along
  • NATED066, on 03/31/2008, -2/+2Xenu did it...
  • dhughes, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2 I wonder what culture was living in the area under the asteroid impact, whoever they were they were toasted, flattened and then buried.
  • truthliesverbs, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2I wonder how much more we have to learn from the other artifacts with the same cuneiform.
  • tb616973, on 03/31/2008, -2/+2Ancient Astronaut lie theory FTW
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronaut
  • TheMadPoet, on 03/31/2008, -1/+3So Daniel has finally deciphered the ancient Goa'uld tablet disclosing the location of another stargate in central Europe buried by a meteor impact?! Cool.
  • BigTomCasual, on 03/31/2008, -0/+0Total bummer-cakes for those who dedicated years of their life studying the previously proposed "rockslide"
  • JimmyBook, on 04/01/2008, -0/+0Scientology plants articles in digg now?
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