Did an asteroid really destroy Sodom & Gomorrah?
Posted by truthtalklive on March 31, 2008
..or should we call it a “Divine” asteroid?
An Assyrian planisphere, or star chart, from
about 700 B.C. which may depict events recounted
by Sumerians from around 3123 B.C.
A clay tablet that has baffled scientists for 150 years has been identified as a witness’s account of the asteroid suspected of being behind the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Researchers who cracked the cuneiform symbols on the Planisphere tablet believe that it recorded an asteroid thought to have been more than half a mile across. The tablet, found by Henry Layard in the remains of the library in the royal place at Nineveh in the mid-19th century, is thought to be a 700 B.C. copy of notes made by a Sumerian astronomer watching the night sky.
