Prehistoric Cosmos: Star Map on a 30,000-Year-Old Mammoth Shoulder Blade

 Not so long ago, it became known about an intriguing discovery made back in 1928 by the Soviet history teacher Anatoly Stolbunov. In one of the caves near Simferopol, he discovered the bones of a mammoth.

As a result of research, it turned out that they had lain in the depths of the cave for 30,000 years. But the most striking thing is that the bone of the scapula was polished and a pattern was applied to it, which consisted of symbols and dots.

 Scientists have long puzzled over what this could mean. But then the astrophysicist Chernov saw the drawing and said that it was a map of the starry sky: 16 constellations of the Northern Hemisphere and 102 stars, some of which were discovered quite recently.

Anatoly Stolbunov made several sketches of images and sent them to friends. He really wanted to try, as he himself said, “to solve the riddle posed by the Cro-Magnons.”

Not so long ago, scientists entered a copy of the sketch into a computer and looked at how the pattern of the starry sky had changed over so many years, thanks to which astrophysicists were able to confirm that it was exactly 30,000 years ago that the sky looked like this....<<<Read More>>>...