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Noah's Flood - The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History (Paperback)
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Noah's Flood - The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History (Paperback)
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List price R524
Loot Price R478
Discovery Miles 4 780
You Save R46 (9%)
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Over the millennia, the legend of a great deluge has endured in the
biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic
of Gilgamesh. Now two distinguished geophysicists have discovered a
catastrophic event that changed history, a gigantic flood 7,600
years ago in what is today the Black Sea.
Using sound waves and coring devices to probe the sea floor,
William Ryan and Walter Pitman revealed clear evidence that this
inland body of water had once been a vast freshwater lake lying
hundreds of feet below the level of the world's rising oceans.
Sophisticated dating techniques confirmed that 7,600 years ago the
mounting seas had burst through the narrow Bosporus valley, and the
salt water of the Mediterranean had poured into the lake with
unimaginable force, racing over beaches and up rivers, destroying
or chasing all life before it. The rim of the lake, which had
served as an oasis, a Garden of Eden for farms and villages in a
vast region of semi-desert, became a sea of death. The people fled,
dispersing their languages, genes, and memories.
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