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Ancient symbols carved into stones at a site in Turkey suggest that a swarm of comets smashed into Earth 13,000 years ago – triggering an ice age.
Scientists believe that the site may have been an ancient observatory – and a carving of a headless man is thought to symbolise human disaster and extensive loss of life.
Evidence from the carvings, made on a pillar known as the Vulture Stone, suggests that a swarm of comet fragments hit the Earth in around 11000 BC.
The site is at Gobekli Tepe in southern Turkey.
Computer software was used to match carvings of animals – interpreted as astronomical symbols – to patterns of stars and pinpoint the event to 10950 BC.
Other evidence for the impact from a Greenland ice core suggests roughly the same time frame.
The cataclysm ushered in a cold climate lasting 1,000 years and is likely to have resulted from the break-up of a giant comet in the inner solar system.
Lead researcher Dr Martin Sweatman, from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering, said: ‘It appears Gobekli Tepe was, among other things, an observatory for monitoring the night sky.
http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/24/ancie...swarm-of-deadly-comets-hitting-earth-6593613/
Scientists believe that the site may have been an ancient observatory – and a carving of a headless man is thought to symbolise human disaster and extensive loss of life.
Evidence from the carvings, made on a pillar known as the Vulture Stone, suggests that a swarm of comet fragments hit the Earth in around 11000 BC.
The site is at Gobekli Tepe in southern Turkey.
Computer software was used to match carvings of animals – interpreted as astronomical symbols – to patterns of stars and pinpoint the event to 10950 BC.
Other evidence for the impact from a Greenland ice core suggests roughly the same time frame.
The cataclysm ushered in a cold climate lasting 1,000 years and is likely to have resulted from the break-up of a giant comet in the inner solar system.
Lead researcher Dr Martin Sweatman, from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering, said: ‘It appears Gobekli Tepe was, among other things, an observatory for monitoring the night sky.
http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/24/ancie...swarm-of-deadly-comets-hitting-earth-6593613/