5,500-year-old Sumerian Star Map - The Circular Stone-cast Tablet From 3477 Bce

5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map

• The circular stone-cast tablet FROM 3477 BCE
• ARTICLE SAYS 3300 BCE

The circular stone-cast tablet was recovered from
the 650 BC underground library of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, Iraq

5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map
“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 circular stone-cast tablet was recovered from the 650 BC
underground library of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, Iraq
in the late 19th century.

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.

It consists of a segmented, disk-shaped star chart with marked units
of angle measure inscribed upon the rim