News Climate 26 March 2018
Mediterranean megaflood confirmed
The Med experienced a flood of Biblical proportions in pre-Biblical times. Andrew Masterson reports.
Once upon a time there was a massive flood across the Mediterranean Sea, an in-pouring of water so huge that it excavated a canyon five kilometres deep and 20 kilometres long, and created a waterfall with a 1.5 kilometre drop.
Evidence for the great flood, long hypothesised, has now been found by a team of researchers led by geoscientist Aaron Micallef from the University of Malta.
And while several Mediterranean traditions feature great flood narratives, the earliest arising from Sumeria and already well enough known to be recorded in cuneiform by the seventeenth century BCE, this one is unlikely to have been the inspiration.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/climate/mediterranean-megaflood-confirmed
