- Ancient stone carvings confirm that a comet struck the Earth around 11,000BC, a devastating event which wiped out wooly mammoths and sparked the rise of civilisations. The markings suggest that a swarm of comet fragments hit Earth at the exact same time that a mini-ice age struck http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2017/ancient-stone-confirms-date-of-comet-strike 81 comments science
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- Ancient Carvings Show Evidence of a Comet Swarm Hitting Earth Around 13,000 Years Ago : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-carvings-in-turkey-show-a-comet-hitting-earth-changing-civilisation-forever 68 comments
- Ancient temple tells the tale of an ice age-inducing comet collision http://newatlas.com/ancient-temple-turkey-comet-ice-age/49209/ 31 comments
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