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5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of a Massive Asteroid - Archaeology Worlds
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This tablet has been around for decades and is basically the only alleged hard piece of evidence for the Köfels Impact. After that you get into Austrian biblical psuedo-historians looking for Sodom and Gomorrah.
I'm pretty comfortable putting this whole thing in the bunk bin. The article's host site is also full of archeological sensationalism.