5,000-year old rock carving<\/a> in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region depicts a falling meteor, said archaeologists on Saturday.<\/p>\nA rock on the side of Dahei Mountain in the city of Chifeng has images of people, domed houses and a fire ball with a long tail falling from the sky engraved on it, said Wu Jiacai, head of the Inner Mongolia rock paintings protection association.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s a shame that news reports from China don’t usually come with images… I guess that the meteor could just as easily be a comet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many independent researchers believe that something must of\u00a0occurred\u00a0in 3114BC to trigger the start of the Mayan Long Count calendar – and therefore any information about events from 5,000 years ago catch my eye – like this one:
\nA 5,000-year old rock carving in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region depicts a falling meteor, said archaeologists on Saturday.
\nA rock on the side of Dahei Mountain in the city of Chifeng has images of people, domed houses and a fire ball with a long tail falling from the sky engraved on it, said Wu Jiacai, head of the Inner Mongolia rock paintings protection association.
\nIt’s a shame that news reports from China don’t usually come with images… I guess that the meteor could just as easily be a comet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,234,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","category-comets","category-meteorite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}