A hoax is only a hoax if someone purposefully tries to deceive someone through trickery or fraudulent means. The tablet story may be untrue, but the people advocating the theory are sincere.................
Didst thou personally ax them meticulously concerning their level of sumeriology?
Red Badger, perhaps you would have recognized the hoax if the following lines in introduction of the article of The Telegraph had been kept there: “A historian from Azerbaijan, who believes humans originally came to Earth from another planet, has interpreted it as a description of the arrival of a spaceship. More mainstream academics have failed to decipher its meaning.” You would have been warned not to take it too seriously I guess.