Sumerian Star Map

Sumerian Star Map

5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of a Massive Asteroid

Still under study by modern scholars, the cuneiform tablet in the British Museum collection No K8538 (known as “the Planisphere”) provides extraordinary proof for the existence of sophisticated Sumerian astronomy. the tablet records an ancient asteroid strike, the Köfels’ Impact, which struck Austria sometime around 3100 BC