The Asteroid Behind the Bible's Most Famous Disaster
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What catastrophic event occurred in 1650 BC?
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In December 2024, a telescope spotted a rock the size of a 20-story building heading our way.
What artifacts connect to the destruction of ancient cities?
Its odds of hitting Earth were higher than any asteroid in 20 years. Then the math changed, and the threat passed. This time. We weren't the first to see a city killer coming. A tablet from a library in Iraq. A bronze disk buried on a German hillside. Melted pottery from the Dead Sea. Three different objects from three different countries describing the same event. Every ancient civilization on Earth has a story about that morning. It's the story of the end of the world. And today we're going to read it off a piece of clay.
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How did scientists excavate the site linked to the disaster?
Northern Iraq, 1842. The Bible called Nineveh the greatest city of the ancient world. Walls 100 feet tall, streets wide enough for three chariots side by side. Classical historians agreed it was real, but nobody could find it. Eventually, most scholars decided it never existed. then a french consul started pulling giant winged bulls out of a mound in northern mesopotamia paris went wild the british museum wanted a discovery of its own and austin henry layard thought he knew where to find one the race for the lost city was on Laird followed the clues. Ancient texts put Nineveh directly across the river from what's now Mosul. One mound fit, a massive hill on the east bank of the Tigris. In 1849, Laird recruited a crew and dug, and dug, and dug, and then he hit stone.
He expected a palace, but he broke into room after room full of clay tablets, stacked and shelved and catalogued the largest library of the ancient world. It belonged to King Ashurbanipal, who wanted every piece of knowledge on Earth under one roof. He sent scribes across the empire to copy anything they could find, medical texts, star charts, royal letters, 30,000 tablets, including the oldest version of the Epic of Gilgamesh. We still have these documents because of King Ashurbanipal.
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Ashurbanipal.
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Ashurbanipal.
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Ashurbanipal bragged about it, in his own inscriptions, in his own voice. He claimed he read texts written before the flood. Scholars filed that under royal trash talk. Then, in 612 BC, Nineveh's enemies burned the city to the ground. The fire should have destroyed everything. but it didn't. The clay tablets baked harder. The collapsed roof sealed the rooms. The library went underground for 2,500 years, preserved by the same disaster that was supposed to erase it.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What catastrophic event occurred in 1650 BC?
0:00–0:44
2
What artifacts connect to the destruction of ancient cities?
0:44–2:42
3
How did scientists excavate the site linked to the disaster?
2:42–13:15
4
What evidence suggests an asteroid impact caused the destruction?
13:15–29:53
5
What is the significance of the Nineveh Planisphere?
29:53–43:11
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