I can't find an archaeology category, so I am hoping there are some experts perusing this category.
Something I always wondered - civilisation is supposed to have started up in the fertile triangle around the Persian Gulf, or rather in the region of the twin rivers of the Tigris and Euphrates, in present day Iraq. But just prior to civilisations rise, the ice age locked up so much water that the sea-level was up to 100m lower than present, making most of the current Persian Gulf a dry plain, with those great rivers (maybe as one large river) running down almost to what is now the straits of Hormuz.
So, has nobody thought of searching the floor of the Persian Gulf for any evidence of a pre-civilisation. The dry bed of what was sea before the ice age would surely have been a wonderfully fertile land.
Also, the breach of the Bosphorous at the end of the ice age has been suggested as a possible origin of the Noah story. Why not then the breach of the Straits of Hormuz?
2006-09-27
17:22:12
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nick s
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