Noah's Flood (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Noah's Flood In this highly accessible excursion into modern-day science and ancient mythologies, two geophysicists show that the flood really happened 7,500 years ago, spreading the culture and technology that are the very basis of our civilization. Maps & line drawings.
Full description- Publisher: TOUCHSTONE
- Published: 25 January 2000
- Format: Paperback 320 pages
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- Categories: Folklore, Myths & Legends | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Archaeology | Biblical Archaeology | Mind, Body & Spirit | Earth: Natural History General | History Of Religion | Biblical Studies & Exegesis
- ISBN 13: 9780684859200 ISBN 10: 0684859203
- Sales rank: 355,656
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Full description for Noah's Flood
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.
