European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                 wow w. I to n7gu Wallet Comet a history British museum exhibits rare display by Gregory Jensen United press International visitors to a basement room in the British museum pm Sec words written 2,149 years ago by a babylonian scribe about a rare phenomenon that is now sweeping across the skies. The Cornet which previously had been in the East reported the scribe in 764 ., became visible and passed along the path of a in the West. His words chronicled the appearance of Halley s Comet which is once again travelling in Earth s Vicinity. His document a Clay Tablet shaped like a Little Pillow is now the Star exhibit in a Small but fascinating show. Whatever the historic even the British museum and British Library can delve into their bottomless treasure and come up with original source material. So it is for Habey s Comet in history past observations of a Distant  the Tablet recording the 164 . Passage of Halley a Comet is displayed alongside another describing the Comet return in b7  While the British museum has had these babylonian tablets for a Century their references to the Comet were Only recognized last year. These however were not history s first account of the Comet named for Britain s sir Edmund Hallcy which visits every 76 years in a nearby Case is a copy of a chinese manuscript noting the Comet s sweep across China in 240  The earliest reliable observation of Halley s Comet. This manuscript coins a Lovely description of a Comet Broom  the chinese used this phrase repeatedly in j to stripes Maizine Jln Ollry 1s, 13s6 above a a woodcut depicting observations of Halley s Cornel in 1531. At top of the Page is detail from the to Bayeux tapestry