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In Room 55 of the British Museum sits a circular clay tablet 14 centimetres across, covered in astronomical observations arranged in eight segments. Researchers fed the star positions into a computer and matched them to a specific night, the 29th of June, 3123 BCE.
Two aerospace engineers then decoded the trajectory calculations inscribed on the tablet and projected them forward to a point of impact: the Austrian Alps, site of the largest prehistoric landslide in Europe, whose cause has never been established.
Their book was published by an academic press.
The academic response was silence. The landslide still has no agreed explanation.