During my visit earlier last year to the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad, at the Sumerian wing, I observed among the numerous historical items there, three clay tablets with cuneiform writing and drawings dating back to around 3000 BC. One tablet depicted …

Dec 28, 2018 · For over 150 years scientists have tried to solve the mystery of a controversial cuneiform clay tablet that indicates the so-called Köfel's impact event was observed in ancient times. The Sumerian star map shows people observing and recording Köfels' impact more than 5,500 years ago.

Dec 8, 2024 · The VA 243 is a 6,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablet housed in the British Museum. The tablet features a depiction that has sparked decades of debate among historians and astronomers. Central to the controversy is the detailed solar system map that appears between the figures etched onto the tablet.

Mar 13, 2018 · A Stray Sumerian Tablet has been published today by Cambridge University Library and focuses on a diminutive clay tablet, written by a scribe in ancient Iraq, some 4,200 years ago. A description of the tablet along with high-resolution images and a 3D model can also be seen on Cambridge Digital Library.

Long thought to be an Assyrian tablet, computer analysis has matched it with the sky above Mesopotamia in 3300 BC and proves it to be of much more ancient Sumerian origin. The tablet is an “Astrolabe,” the earliest known astronomical instrument.

Mar 31, 2024 · There is an Ancient Sumerian Cylinder Seal, believed to be around 4,500 years old that curiously seems to depict our Sun and twelve planets within our Solar System, one of them supposedly being Nibiru, the elusive planet lurking somewhere on …

Jan 10, 2024 · 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.