Before the Flood : understanding the biblical Flood story as recalling a real-life event
Wilson, Ian, 1941-2001
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For centuries in the Near East archaeological evidence has been turning up of a major flood in the area's ancient history. In 1995, two marine biologists put forward evidence that showed that until almost 7500 years ago the Black Sea was a freshwater lake separated form the Mediterranean Sea by a small strip of land where Istanbul now stands. Their theory suggested that around 5600 BC the Mediterranean broke through the land barrier and salt water poured through with a force 200 times that of Niagara Falls inundating the Black Sea and raising its level by over 300 feet. In September 2000, Marine archaeologist Robert Ballard discovered the wooden remains of houses 300 feet below the surface of the Black Sea, 12 miles north of the present-day Turkish coast
Main title:
Author:
Wilson, Ian, 1941-, author
Imprint:
London : Orion, 2001.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Map on lining papers.
ISBN:
07528463539780752846354
Dewey class:
220.93220.93930.2
Language:
English
BRN:
287669