The Asteroid Behind the Bible's Most Famous Disaster

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2:44northern 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 Austen Henry Laird 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 cataloged the largest library of the ancient world. It belonged to King Ashurbanipal, who wanted every piece of knowledge on Earth under one roof.

4:00He 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. King Ashton Bonaparte. Ashurbanipal. Asplay from a pal. Ashurbanipal. So Ashtray Bonaparte paved the way for AI companies to steal all our data. Cool, cool, cool. I got it. Go ahead. 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. Layard shipped the tablets to London. Then the hard part started. Cuneiform, the wedge-shaped writing of ancient Mesopotamia. That was a code nobody could fully read yet. One symbol could mean a single word, or a single sound,

5:17or a whole word, or a whole sentence. Scholars spent decades fighting over translations, publishing papers that flatly contradicted each other. And through all of it, one tablet sat in a drawer and waited. It was round, five and a half inches across, small enough to hold in one hand. And round was strange, because cuneiform tablets are almost always rectangular. One side was blank. The other was divided into eight equal slices like a pie, each one packed with writing and little drawings, arrows, clusters of dots, a triangle, a spiral. The British Museum gave it a number, K8538, and a name, the Nineveh Planisphere. A planisphere is a flat map of the night sky. The scholars who named it took a guess. They had no idea how close they were because every expert who tried to read it got a different answer. One called it an instrument for measuring stars. One spent 300 pages arguing it recorded a single night in 650 BC. One called it a message to the king about omens. They all agreed on exactly one thing. It was a text. They just argued about what it said. And the scribe who carved it into wet clay didn't understand it either.

6:37He copied it line for line from something 25 centuries older than he was. A text from before the flood. Exactly the kind of thing the king bra than he was. A text from before the flood. Exactly the kind of thing the King Bragg he owned. The scribe was an expert on dead languages. By the time anyone could read this one, his language was dead, too. Assyriology is a closed world. It takes decades to learn. The writing, the dead languages, 3,000 years of Mesopotamian history. The people who translate these tablets train their whole lives to do it. Rocket scientists are supposed to stay in their lane. Alan Bond and Mark Hemsell were rocket scientists. Bond designed spacecraft engines. Hemsell taught astronautics. Neither one read cuneiform. For years, they were convinced that every translator for a century and a half had it backwards. The tablet wasn't a text at all. It was a a map the arrows and the clusters of dots were stars eight slices of sky in the exact positions of real constellations like pisces and the pleiades not a map of anywhere

7:55on earth a map of the night above it so bond and himself fed the star positions into planetarium software the kind that can run the sky backward to any date in history so they told the software to find the night where those constellations lined up it came back with an answer 3123 bc that was 2500 years earlier than anyone ever guessed they assumed it was a mistake so they ran ran it again. Checked the constellations, checked the latitude. The answer kept coming back to the same, June 29th, 3123 BC, just before dawn, seen from southern Mesopotamia. Three of the eight slices showed ordinary sky. The other five showed what came next. Something crossed that sky, bright enough to cast shadows, fast enough that the scribe had to draw it in stages as it moved. The tablet described a white stone ball, a disc, coming out of the giant part of the sky we call Pisces, climbing to the northwest and crossing the horizon at an angle bonded hemp cell could measure down to a fraction of a degree, six degrees above the horizon.

9:10And that's where the math stops being abstract. An object that big, that low, moving that fast, doesn't stop at the horizon, it keeps going. They drew the line on a map, northwest across Iraq, across Turkey, across the Balkans, 2,000 miles until the line ran straight into the side of a mountain, a valley in the Auschwitz Alps, a place called Kofels. And for 100 years, Kofels was a problem nobody can solve. Until now. You want to know what's wild? The same institutions printing money and growing the debt to $39 trillion are also the ones telling you to keep your retirement in paper assets. Stocks. Bonds. Dollars. one's telling you to keep your retirement in paper assets stocks bonds dollars assets that only hold value if you trust the system backing them meanwhile the numbers are doing something different gold up around 35 percent this past year silver up over 125 percent the stock market which everyone's been celebrating is up about 27 percent It's not even a close comparison.

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11:53came off the ridge in an alpine valley in a single event and dropped the peak by 600 feet. The slide ran three miles wide and 1,600 feet thick. A rock like that doesn't just fall. Something has to move it. An earthquake didn't fit because no fault runs through the area. A normal landslide didn't fit either. It was too big, it was too fast, and it was too hot. God, Janice. Who? My first love. Janice. Too big, too fast, too hot. Why you gotta bring her up? I didn't. Because one detail made Kofel's strange long before anyone said the word asteroid. The rock at the bottom of the slide was melted. Not weathered, not crushed. Melted. Geologists call it frictionite, a glassy rock that forms when stone gets ground so fast that the friction turns it to liquid. Kofels has beds of the stuff several feet thick. And the quartz crystals down the slide carry shock fractures, microscopic damage that only forms under the kind of pressure you find at a nuclear test site or confirmed impact crater.

13:09The same fingerprint turns up at Chickasoo Lube, where the rock that killed the dinosaurs hit, and at Meteor Crater in Arizona. Heat, friction, chicks and lube. Can we please stop talking about Janus? I would love nothing more. Here's what Bond and himself calculated it would take. An object a kilometer wide, two thirds of a mile, hit the air at 20 kilometers a second, 45,000 miles an hour. At six degrees, which was the angle on the tablet, it came in so shallow, it never cratered the ground. It skipped across the top of the atmosphere like a stone across a pond crushing the air in front of it into a wall of plasma hotter than the surface of the sun anything alive under the track every animal every tree everything from the persian gulf to the alps watched a second sunrise climb into the wrong part of the sky. And when it finally broke apart right over Kofels, it released more energy than every nuclear weapon on Earth going off at once. For comparison, in 1908, a rock about 160 feet across blew up over Siberia and flattened 800 square miles of forest. We call that Tunguska.

14:24The Kofels object was 20 times wider. And energy scales with weight, not width. This thing carried thousands of Tunguskas. The column of vaporized rock punched straight up out of the valley. Then the jet stream caught it, and one hour later, the cloud stretched from Ireland to Moscow. The cloud went up 40 miles. To picture that, a passenger jet flies at about 7 miles up. The space shuttle comes home through the atmosphere at around 40. The Kofals plume reached the same height, except it was made of vaporized rock and molten iron and air cooked into plasma. It climbed through the weather and into the edge of space. The largest hydrogen bomb ever built, the Soviet Tsar Bomba, sent its mushroom cloud to 40 miles too. That's the scale we're talking about. But Kofel's was a stack of Tsar Bombas going off on top of a mountain. The plume sheared sideways and rode the jet string east. It spread as it went, a column turning into a mushroom,

15:40turning into a sheet of glowing debris the size of a continent. Inside it were pieces the blast didn't fully vaporize. Millimeter beads of molten iron and rock frozen into glass as they shot upward. Scientists call them tektites and spherules. That's what an impact leaves behind, tiny drops of cooked planet scattered downwind. The plume came down eventually. The fallout reached across Europe and into the Near East, and it's still there. Archaeologists pull it out of the soil to this day. But here's the part that should keep you up at night. Kobol's wasn't a freak accident. Astronomers know where the rock came from. They call it the Torrid Stream, the wreckage of a giant comet that broke apart in the inner solar system sometime in the last 20,000 years. The biggest surviving chunk is a comet 4 kilometers across that still loops the sun every three years. Everything else, the dust and gravel and rocks and the occasional mountain, runs in a long tube of debris that crosses Earth's orbit twice a year, every year, for longer than our species has existed. Now, most of it is nothing. When the dust burns up over your house every Halloween, you call it the torrid meteor shower and make a wish. I made a wish once. I wish that

16:59every time someone tapped my bowl, they became uncomfortably damp forever. Did it work? You're dry, aren't you, human? Man, that John Cena is so full of . Now, every once in a while, a bigger piece gets through. And we have proof. In 1975, Earth crossed a dense part of the stream, and some of it hit the moon. The seismometers the Apollo astronauts left on the surface picked up the strikes, machines on the moon. The seismometers the Apollo astronauts left on the surface picked up the strikes, machines on the moon ringing as the swarm came through. The big pieces don't come every year. They come in clumps, thousands of years apart. The debris isn't spread out evenly. It orbits the sun seven times for every two trips Jupiter makes. And every so often, Jupiter's gravity gives it a tug and herds the loose rock into dense knots. Picture a prospector swirling a pan until the gold collects in one spot. Earth doesn't cross those knots often, but when it does, cities burn. One of them sat on the shore of the Dead Sea, a city people told stories about for thousands of years, a city that, according to the Bible, God himself promised to destroy. And if you remember how the story ends, it doesn't end well. Starting something, a podcast, a business, a merch store for people who believe the moon is a hologram,

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19:44And by the middle of the last century, archaeologists quit looking. Sodom got filed next to Atlantis. A moral lesson, not a real place. But Stephen Collins didn't buy it. Bill Collins? Stephen. That would have been awesome. In the air tonight is actually a story about asteroids falling out of the sky. Epic! Collins ran the... The heat doesn't show, but the pain still grows. It's no stranger to you and me. Are you finished? Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Now I'm finished. Collins ran the archaeology program at a small evangelical university in New Mexico. The mainstream field didn't treat him as one of their own. Evangelical archaeologists dig to test the Bible, and that put him on the outside. But Collins was sure of two things. Sodom was real, and he knew where to look. That's enough. He spent 10 years on the geography before he even picked up a shovel. The Bible puts Sodom on the plain north of the Dead Sea, not south, where everyone before him searched. One site sat exactly where the text pointed, a Bronze Age mound in Jordan called Tal el-Hammam. And it was no village.

21:00In its day, this was the biggest city in the region, 10 times the size of Jerusalem and 5 times the size of Jericho. Its life ended all at once, in a single burned layer, around 1650 BC. So in 2005, he started to dig. 15 seasons, 5 feet of charcoal and ash. His team went in expecting a war. Armies burned cities. Earthquakes flattened them. Volcanoes buried them. Those were the way a Bronze Age city died. What they pulled out of the ground didn't match any of them. They pulled out pottery that melted instead of breaking, glazed on one side and untouched on the other, like somebody took a blowtorch to one side of a piece of clay. They found mud brick with the outer face turned into glass while the inside was still clay, and grain cooked to black dust right where it sat. Glass forms at about 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit. Lava out of a volcano tops out at around 2,200. Nothing on Earth's surface gets pottery that hot. Then they found the people. Two skulls lying a hands-width apart. One with the eye socket crushed in.

22:17A skeleton in the throne room of the palace. Top half simply gone, and the bottom half burned down to the bone. Collins didn't trust it. He sent samples to lab after lab, and every lab sent back the same fingerprint. Shocked quartz, the same fractured crystals from cofals, microscopic beads of molten iron and glass, diamond dust formed in the first instant of a shockwave, and a layer of iridium in the soil, the same metal that proves that the dinosaurs went extinct because of an impact. The numbers pointed to an airburst, an explosion in the air instead of a crater in the ground. Something detonated about two and a half miles above the rooftops with a force of a thousand Hiroshima's. If you stood on the city wall that morning, the flash came first, brighter than the sun. The air itself arrived a few seconds later, moving faster than the speed of sound. The dirt holds one more clue. The destruction layer is packed with salt, 4% on average. In some samples, a quarter of the soil is salt. The team's best explanation is the blast went off close enough to the Dead Sea to vaporize part of

23:33it. And what rained down on the fields was the sea itself. One of the strangest details in the Bible story is Lot's wife turning into a pillar of salt when she looked back. It's also the one detail that the soil proves. The salt poisoned everything. Nothing grew. Across a 15-mile circle, 120 towns and villages went dark, and they stayed dark for 600 years. His team expected graves. They found something like Pompeii, 17 centuries before Pompeii happened. They found people frozen mid-step with their mouths open, hands up, caught in the half second before they died. And you can't help but wonder, in that moment, what did they say? Summer 1999. A forested hilltop in eastern Germany. Two men with a metal detector got a signal and started digging. What came out of the ground was a bronze plate about the size of a dinner plate, crusted green and heavy. Gold shapes were hammered into the face, a circle, a crescent, a tight cluster of seven dots.

24:50The men were looters. They had no idea what they had. They gouged it with the shovel, getting it out, chipped the gold, and sold the whole thing the next day for 31,000 marks. Then the disc disappeared. For three years, it moved through the black market, dealer to dealer, and the price climbed toward a million. There was just one problem for whoever held it. Under German law, the disc belonged to the state, which meant every sale was a crime, which meant it could never surface in the open. The hottest object in the German underground couldn't be sold in Germany. But the authorities knew it was out there. So in 2002, they set a trap. A tip put the disc in Switzerland, and a meeting was arranged in the bar of the Basel Hotel. The state archaeologist played the buyer. The dealers put 3,600 years of human history on a table next to the drinks, and he picked it up. He knew within seconds this thing was real. He also refused to let go of it, and while he held on, undercover police moved in around the table. And that's how the oldest picture of the sky ever found ended up in a museum, a sting operation. Cleaned and restored, the disk shows a night sky in gold and dark bronze,

26:07a full sun or moon, a crescent, and a tight cluster of seven dots, the Pleiades, the same seven stars the scribe pressed into the clay at Nineveh. The gold came from Cornwall in England. The copper came from a single mine in the Austrian Alps, about 180 miles from Kofels, and along one edge runs a long, curved golden arc. Most researchers read it as a boat carrying the sun across the night. Others read it as something else, a thing with a tail crossing the sky. The oldest map of the city on Earth went into the ground within a few years of the morning that the cities of sodom and gomorrah burned okay what do we got everything i just told you from the tablet to the disc is a story as several research teams have published it. Bond and Hempsell's book on the planisphere, Collins' 15 years at Tal el-Hammam, a 2021 paper in a major journal arguing the city died in a blast from the sky. It's a hell of a story. But is it true?

27:23We'll start with the tablet. K8538 is real. It in the british museum right now it's assyrian and it really is round when almost nothing else in that collection is what's in question is the translation the professional assyriologists the people who spent their lives on this mostly don't buy bond and Hemsel's reading. They see a ritual calendar about gods and constellations, not an eyewitness report. Bond and Hemsel read it the way engineers read data. Both readings fit the marks, but only one of them can be tested. Kofels is more solid. The melted rock is real. A mountain came down in one night, and the stone at the bottom melted. What's not settled is when and why. The best dating we have puts the slide at around 7,500 BC, more than 4,000 years before the tablets' morning. And that's a serious problem for the impact theory. Plenty of geologists think a big enough landslide can make that rock melt all by itself. And some question the shocked quartz as well. Worst case for the theory the date splits the story in two a mountain that fell in 7500 bc and a fireball over mesopotamia in 3123 bc the tablet loses the mountain but the sky keeps its track record tall el hamam is the

28:41hot worst that 2021 paper got the most attention and the most fire. Mark Boslow, a physicist at the University of New Mexico who models airbursts for living, pulled apart the paper's Tunguska comparison and flagged excavation photos rotated to fit the blast story. The paper drew more than 180 challenges on a science watchdog site. In April 2025, the Journal retracted it, and Boslow couldn't resist the Genesis joke on the way out. Oh, did he say they were living in a land of confusion? Really? It's a Phil Collins callback. I know what it is. The title of his takedown said the Sodom claim should be taken with a pillar of salt. That didn't end the fight, though. It just moved it. One month later, the same team republished an expanded version somewhere else with new data and a computer model of the blast. The team said a small group of scientists tried to shut down the conversation and failed. The catch is that the journal they moved to was founded by people who backed these same airburst ideas. So depending on who you ask, that's either a brave team going around the gatekeepers or a closed-loop publishing itself. A retraction doesn't mean the city wasn't destroyed.

29:57It means the first claim about how it was destroyed didn't survive review. But here's the thing the critics can't wave away. Tal al-Hammam isn't the only one. 12,800 years ago, long before writing, a village on the Euphrates called Abu Hurayya burned the same way. The same melt glass, the same diamond dust, the same iron beads. Temperatures passed 3,600 degrees. Nobody retracted Abu Hurayya. The bigger idea belongs to a comet strike at the end of the last ice age is one of the nastiest feuds in modern science, but the paper stands. So even if Tal el-Hammam falls apart tomorrow, the pattern doesn't fall with it. And then there's the disk. The honest answer is that nobody can read it the comet reading is the minority view most researchers see a boat carrying the sun the copper coming from a mine near kofels might be a memory of a trade route and people still fight over how old the thing even is one camp says it's bronze age another says it's a thousand years younger but the disc is real what it remembers is up for grabs so we don't get an answer we just get an inventory we know a scribe copied a tablet he

31:13couldn't read and the library that held it burned and the burning saved it we know a mountain in austria came down in one night and the rock at the bottom melted. We know a village on the Euphrates cooked to glass. We know a city on the Dead Sea burned in a single morning and stayed empty for as long as 600 years. And we know that nearly every ancient culture on Earth tells a story about the day the sky caught fire, the Sumerians and the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Maya, and the Hopi and the Aboriginal Australians. Maybe Maya, and the Hopi, and the Aboriginal Australians. Maybe they're all the same story, or maybe none of them are. But here's the part that scares me. Mark Boslow, the man who helped take down the Sodom paper, led a new study on the Torrid stream, the same stream from Kofel's. His team's finding, the swarm makes its next close passes in 2032 and 2036. And if dangerous rocks are riding in it, most won't be visible until they're already past us. When he explains why he takes the swarm seriously, he points at the moon. Fireballs spike and lunar impacts register right when the swarm theory says they should his bottom line we won't know until 2032 after it's too late unless we do something about it

32:34the man who debunked one part of this story is sounding the alarm on the other and the last time the swarm came this close was june 1975 and that pass set the moon ringing that's true astronomers booked a dedicated hunt for the big objects during the swarm's 2019 pass the best viewing window in decades they never got to look protests shut down the mountain hawaii and the telescope sat dark through the entire window they tried again in 2022 with two telescopes and came up empty, which is good news, sort of. The empty sky ruled out the giants. It couldn't rule out the small stuff. By the search team's own math, the swarm could still hold up to 1,000 rocks the size of the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia. That was in 2013 and put 1,500 people in the hospital. They get two more chances to look before the swarm arrives. 2029 and a little bit sooner in 2026. Yes, this year in a few months. Which brings us back to where we started. In December 2024, a building-sized rock passed between the Earth and the satellites.

33:50We never saw it coming. We only saw it leaving. It came out of the daytime sky, passed us, and a telescope in Chile caught it two days later, already petted away. Its return date was December 2032. Different rock, different family, same year the swarm comes back. For a while, the math said it might hit the moon instead of us. And astronomers were honestly a little excited. A chance to watch an impact land somewhere else, on a surface where we can study it for centuries. Then this past March, the Webb Telescope hunted the rock down one more time and called it a clean miss, 15,000 miles. The math saved us this time. The people who watched the sky come apart 5,000 years ago didn't have this math. They didn't even have words for this. They had what they saw, a wet piece of clay and the hope that somebody someday would pick it up and understand. Right now, that's us. We're the ones holding the tablet. So let's stop translating for a second and just listen to the thing. Not the theory, not the date, just what the object is telling us. It's telling us one thing as clear as the morning it was recorded. The sky is a dangerous place.

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38:58Don't quote me on that. But the point is, the membership is there to save you money, not make you money. I prefer just to get the merch is there to save you money, not make you money. I prefer just to get the merch out there as cheap as possible. If you've been watching this channel for a while, you know that I hate creators who gouge. And I never have. So it's a great way to support the team as well. Because that membership revenue, I don't touch it. It goes to the amazing people that help me make this happen. Yeah, keep that secret close to your scales. Those are the plugs and that's going to do it. Until next time, be safe, be kind, and know that you are appreciated. I played Philippians and Area 51 A secret code inside the Bible said I would I love my UFOs and paranormal fun As well as music, so I'm singing like I should. But then another conspiracy theory becomes the truth, my friends, and it never ends.

40:18No, it never ends. I fear the crab cat and I got stuck inside Mel's home with MKUltra Being only too aware Did Stanley Kubrick fake the moon landing alone On a film set or Were the shadow people there? The Roswell aliens Just fought the smiling man I'm told And his name was cold And I can't believe I'm dancing with the fishes Heck, no fish on Thursday night Wednesday, J2 And the werewolves have their feet all through the night All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth So the wild boars have their feet all through the night The Mothman sightings and the solar storm still come

41:38To have got the secret city underground Mysterious number stations Planet Serpo 2 Project Stargate And what the dark watchers found We're in a simulation Don't you worry though The black knight said a lot It told me so I can't believe I'm dancing with the fish Heckle fish on Thursday nights when they chase you And the wild boars all make me up through the night All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth So the wild boars all make me all through the night Hens will fish on Thursday nights when they chase you And one more summer beat all through the night All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth So one more summer beat all through the night. Gertie loves to dance. Gertie loves to dance. Gertie loves to dance. Gertie loves to dance. Gertie loves to dance. Gertie loves to dance.

42:55Gertie loves to dance. Gertie loves to dance on the dance floor because she is a camel. Camels love to dance when because she is a camel and camels love to dance when the feeling is right on wasting time camels love to dance camels love to dance you