Sunday, December 12, 2010

A Lost Civilization Beneath the Persian Gulf?

Anothr Noah's flood case?!?!?

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December 10, 2010 5:42 PM
by kdawson

A Lost Civilization Beneath the Persian Gulf?

Phoghat sends news of a new theory that a once-fertile landmass beneath the Persian Gulf may have supported some of the earliest humans outside of Africa. "Perhaps it is no coincidence that the founding of such remarkably well developed communities along the shoreline corresponds with the flooding of the Persian Gulf basin around 8,000 years ago... These new colonists may have come from the heart of the Gulf, displaced by rising water levels that plunged the once fertile landscape beneath the waters of the Indian Ocean."

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Art Trembanis
CSHEL
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Delaware

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