Description: The link between the Sumerian capital Akkad, the 4.2k-year meteor impact on Earth, the K8538 clay tablet, and climate change.
impact (1243) meteor (131) asteroid (87) mesopotamia (24) sumer (16) akkad (11) astonomer (1) k8538 (1) 4.2k-year event (1) disappearance egyptian kingdom (1)
OBJECTIVE 1: Verify a comet impact site in Mesopotamia. Implications: A verified bolide impact in Iraq at around 2193 BCE would be huge news. According to climate research carried out by Seifert and Lemke it could even be the cause of the 4.2 kYear Event. That event caused the collapse of the old Egyptian Kingdom and the Akkadian Empire, the Liangzhu culture in China and the Indus valley civilization.
OBJECTIVE 2: Verify information from the old Sumerian tablet K8538 as first ever written eyewitness account of a cosmic impact. We see the clay tablet K8538 as a late Babylonian copy of a much older Sumerian original. K8538 was interpreted as a report on God's omnipotence and power of destruction and copied over a timespan of thousands of years because of it's importance. In other words, K8538 was regarded as the direct word of (or from) God. Implications: We hypothesize K8538 as being the source for the ta
OBJECTIVE 3: Investigate nearby unidentified structures (may be related to the lost city of Akkad). Any newly discovered ancient structure is always great news. Implications: The sudden disappearance of Akkad has puzzled archaeologists for many decades. A comet or meteorite impact in it's vicinity would certainly explain it's sudden vanishing act. If the visible structures do not belong to Akkad, they are also of archaeological significance, but not on the scale of the World Sensation this find would otherw