Amazing work by scholars who have deciphered an ancient clay tablet that gives an eyewitness account of the asteroid suspected of destroying Sodom and Gomorrah reported in the London Times.
The asteroid was described as "white stone bowl approaching."
Mark Hempsell, one of the researchers from Bristol University who cracked the tablet’s code, said: “It’s a wonderful piece of observation, an absolutely perfect piece of science.”
He said the size and route of the asteroid meant that it was likely to have crashed into the Austrian Alps at Köfels. As it travelled close to the ground it would have left a trail of destruction from supersonic shock waves and then slammed into the Earth with a cataclysmic impact.