Ancient stone engravings confirm that before Comet 10.950 a comet hit Earth, which subsequently caused the rise of civilizations

Ancient stone engravings confirm that before the 10.950, a comet that smashed mammoths and caused the rise of civilizations

Experts from the University of Edinburgh analyzed the mysterious symbols engraved on ancient stone pylons at Gobekli Tepe in southern Turkey to see if they could be connected to the constellations.

The symbols indicate that a number of comet fragments fell on Earth at exactly the same time that a small ice age broke out, which changed the overall direction of human history.

For decades, scientists have argued that a sudden drop in temperature could have been caused by a comet, during an era known as the Younger Dryas. But recent meteorite crater dating in North America (the presumed site of the comet's impact) has only put the theory in the right light.

However, when technicians studied the animals engraved on a pillar known as the Vulture's Stone in Gobekli Tepe, they discovered that the animals were in fact astronomical symbols representing constellations and comets.

This idea was first introduced in the book The Magic of the Gods by Graham Hancock.

The computer program helped show where the constellation was above Turkey 10.950 years ago, which is the exact time of the beginning of the Younger Dryas, according to data obtained by research on the ice core from Greenland.

Younger Dryas is considered a crucial period for humanity because it roughly coincides with the emergence of agriculture and the first Neolithic civilization.

Before the impact of the comet, vast areas of wild wheat and barley allowed nomadic hunters in the Middle East to establish a permanent camp. But the difficult climatic conditions that followed the impact forced the communities to join together and devise new ways to harvest the crop by using irrigation and selective breeding. This resulted in the farming of the first cities.

Edinburgh researchers believe that the engravings were created to preserve the memory of this important event for the people of Gobekli Tepe for millennia. This suggests that the event and the cold climate that followed were likely to have had a very serious impact.

Dr. Martin Sweatman of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, who led the research, said:

"Our work serves to strengthen this physical evidence. What has happened here is a process of paradigmatic change.

He discovered that Gobekli Tepe was among other purposes also observatory observers for night sky.

"One of the pillars seems to have served as a memorial to this devastating event - probably the worst day in history since the end of the Ice Age."

Gobekli Tepe seems to be the oldest temple site in the world, dating back to the 9000 years BC, and has overtaken Stonehenge for 6000 years.

Researchers believe the images were intended as a record of a cataclysmic event, and that another engraving showing the headless man may indicate the disaster of mankind and the vast loss of life as such.

The symbolism on the pillars also suggests that long-term changes in the Earth's axis have been recorded over time using the early script, and that Gobekli Tepe was an observatory for meteors and comets as well.

The findings also support the theory that there is a high probability that the Earth will be hit by a comet, given that the orbit of our planet crosses a ring of comet remnants in space.

But despite the ancient origins of the pillars, Dr. Sweatman does not believe that this is the oldest example of astronomy in archaeological records.

"Many Paleolithic cave paintings and artifacts with similar animal symbols and other repetitive symbols suggest that astronomy may have existed for a very long time," he said.

Considering that, according to astronomers, this huge comet arrived in the inner solar system probably 20-30 thousand years ago and was a truly visible and dominant feature in the night sky, it is hard to believe that ancient people could ignore this even in view of the subsequent events.

This research is published in the Mediterranean Archeology and Archaeometry.