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.
From the physorg.com website article I posted, the source is listed as:
Source: University of Bristol
Which is a real university..........I have no idea about The Telegraph article ...........
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/212017945233.html
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/aerospace/research/dynamicsandsystems/kofels/kofelsdownloads.html
http://www.rocketeers.co.uk/?q=node/116
Mark Hempsell certainly seems like a legitimate engineer in aeronautics...............