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Noah's Flood : The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History
Noah's Flood The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History
Author: William Ryan, Walter Pitman
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...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780684859200
ISBN-10: 0684859203
Publication Date: 1/25/2000
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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The authors are geologists who researched the seabeds of the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea to discover the big changes brought about by the end of a minor glacial period - leading to a major flood, and the dispersal of the local agriculturalists into Europe, Asia and north Africa. They use also genetic, linguistic and even storytelling studies to understand how memory of an event before the invention of writing could survive to the present day.
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