Akkadian Collapse approximately 2154 BC about 4170 years before present.
About 4170 bp the Akkadian Empire collapsed in north eastern Syria. The evidence I found points to an interstellar impact temporarily destroying the agricultural productivity of the region.
The original airburst explanation could not explain the vast area of damage. The impact flare of an interstellar asteroid can lay waste to an entire continent. The impact of an interstellar asteroid creates a volcano, not a crater in the ground.
The Empire first tried to blame the destruction of the Akkadian Empire on a drought. Then when people went investigating that drought, they found the tephra and then later, clear signs of an impact. The Empire manufactures a tablet to explain away the interstellar impact as a standard impact occurring much farther south in Iraq. Currently the Empire is blaming the socioeconomic structure of the Akkadian Empire for its demise. Blaming the Akkadian Empire’s socioeconomic structure draws attention away from all of the physical evidence for an interstellar impact.
The Imperial chorus spent taxpayer’s money to date some basalts and volcanos in the area. That date would of course make it too old. There is also the issue of the inconvenient archaeological evidence. What would you find under the supposedly 2 million year old basalts? (Coke bottles
?)
These features look like a recent interstellar impact. The impact flare would have destroyed the surface vegetation and the wind would have mobilized the soil. The tephra can also physically damage plants until erosion and chemistry neutralizes it.
About 4170 bp the Akkadian Empire collapsed in north eastern Syria. The evidence I found points to an interstellar impact temporarily destroying the agricultural productivity of the region.
The original airburst explanation could not explain the vast area of damage. The impact flare of an interstellar asteroid can lay waste to an entire continent. The impact of an interstellar asteroid creates a volcano, not a crater in the ground.
The Empire first tried to blame the destruction of the Akkadian Empire on a drought. Then when people went investigating that drought, they found the tephra and then later, clear signs of an impact. The Empire manufactures a tablet to explain away the interstellar impact as a standard impact occurring much farther south in Iraq. Currently the Empire is blaming the socioeconomic structure of the Akkadian Empire for its demise. Blaming the Akkadian Empire’s socioeconomic structure draws attention away from all of the physical evidence for an interstellar impact.
The Imperial chorus spent taxpayer’s money to date some basalts and volcanos in the area. That date would of course make it too old. There is also the issue of the inconvenient archaeological evidence. What would you find under the supposedly 2 million year old basalts? (Coke bottles

These features look like a recent interstellar impact. The impact flare would have destroyed the surface vegetation and the wind would have mobilized the soil. The tephra can also physically damage plants until erosion and chemistry neutralizes it.

