Posted on 03/26/2018 7:54:10 AM PDT by C19fan
Once upon a time there was a massive flood across the Mediterranean Sea, an in-pouring of water so huge that it excavated a canyon five kilometres deep and 20 kilometres long, and created a waterfall with a 1.5 kilometre drop.
Evidence for the great flood, long hypothesised, has now been found by a team of researchers led by geoscientist Aaron Micallef from the University of Malta.
And while several Mediterranean traditions feature great flood narratives, the earliest arising from Sumeria and already well enough known to be recorded in cuneiform by the seventeenth century BCE, this one is unlikely to have been the inspiration.
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmosmagazine.com ...
Could it be that the present isnt the key to the past? Could there have been a previous flood whose evidence was buried and obliterated by the more recent flood described in the report?
The massive drought/ climate catastrophe that preceded the desertification of most of Africa drove our ancestors to live in the areas near the sea like the caves near Capetown SA where Homo heidelbergensis became dependent on high protein sea fool which, in turn fueled their brains. When the Mediterranean reflooded they spread throughout Africa, Europe and Asia evolving into homo erectus and eventually ourselves.
At least that is one set of facts that has been supported by the fossil record and the great number of artifacts found in the far south of Africa. Amazon Prime has an interesting documentary The Story of Us.
Call me a backwards 'murican, but I hate the metrification of the language.
So say mainstream archaeologists. Decades worth of suppressed evidence says otherwise.
Immanuel Velikovsky got crucified by the scientific community when he wrote Worlds in Collision in 1950.
Most of it makes more sense to me than the current expalanations.
Thanks C19fan.
Thanks - I was trying to remember who wrote those books with Randall Garrett. Was a favorite when I was young.
Hard to believe that there are salt deposits on the bottom of the Med. that are 2 miles thick. The type of salt there is formed only in direct sunlight.
Canadian ice sheets broke up about 13,000 to 14,000 years ago. Dogerland flooded, the Seine valley because the English channel, the Mediterranean, then the Black sea flooded. (There ruined buildings under both the Black See and the North Sea.)
Landslide At Mt. Etna Generated A Large Tsunami In The Mediterranean Sea Nearly 8,000 Years Ago
Science Daily | 11-28-2006 | American Geophysical Union
Posted on 11/29/2006 3:03:09 PM PST by blam
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Fred Nerks: Let not thine eyes deceive thee...something snapped and the remains are still there. The shallowest section in the Strait of Gibraltar is at the Camarinal Sill where the maxium water depth is 290 m.
The Catastrophism ping list began life as an informal and stealth version of a Velikovsky ping list; however, the bulk of the pings (it’s a low-volume list) pertain to catastrophism, rather than to his reconstruction of ancient history.
Catastrophism ‘blog:
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The Med has dried out a bunch of different times, for various lengths of time, but it has generally ended the same way, and from the same direction.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2403954/posts?page=25#25
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-PJ
Thanks! I think that’s new to me!
cracked open like an egg...
Ballard Finds Traces of Ancient Habitation Beneath Black Sea
>>Disaster of all sorts ensues, including a worldwide mega-tsunami when the oceans leap out of their beds and roar across the continents.<<
Joshua 10:13 So the sun stood still...
They use the metric system in Aussie land, where this magazine is published. Crikey!
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