At 1:19 PM -0700 on 9/13/00, Tim May wrote:
The big news today was the announcement that human habitation remains have been found where the Ryan and Pitman theory predicted.
Evidently, there's oceanographic evidence that the Mediterranean itself was dry at one time, with an equivalent event (well of type, it was by definition, larger) at Gibraltar, though, it seems to me that it was sometime very much closer to the last ice age than the events described in today's news. There was some discussion at the time that *that* was the cause of the flood myth, but this recent discovery is clearly a much more memorable event, in terms of human history and especially its closer proximity to the advent of writing. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'