Carvings on stone pillars at Gȍbekli Tepe show comet hit Earth 13,000 years ago, says new study

The stone carvings used in the team's research, found on pillar 43 or 'the Vulture Stone'

at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey [Credit: National Geographic/Getty Images]

Position of the sun and stars in the 10950BC summer solstice

[Credit Martin Sweatman, Stellarium]

Evidence from the carvings, made on a pillar known as the Vulture Stone, suggests that a swarm of

comet fragments hit the Earth in around 11000 BC. The different symbols, said to tell the story,

are labelled in the graphic above [Credit Daily Mail]

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