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The Tomb of Athena is a fictional location in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica
series.

Athena is a diety among the Lords of Kobol whose tomb is located on the mythical planet Kobol, which is the world where the ancient scriptures say mankind originated. Once the refugee fleet discovers a planet containing ancient ruins, President Roslin declairs they have found Kobol. She leads an expedition to find the legendary tomb along with the Arrow of Apollo artifact, which according to scriptures, will "point" the way to Earth, the "lost" 13th colony of mankind.

The tomb is eventually found in the side of a mountain where numerous artifacts are discovered. Inside, the group finds the statue of Apollo and places the arrow in his bow. This sets off a chain of events that seals the tomb's door, and seemingly "transports" the expedition to a grassy hill surrounded by large stones engraved with a zodiac symbols representing each world of the Twelve Colonies. The group realizes the room is a starmap which gives the positions of celestial objects from the viewpoint of someone actually standing on Earth itself.

Upon recognizing a distant nebula cloud, Commader Adama gets his bearings and believes by navigating toward the cloud, the fleet should eventually find Earth.

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