Sinai pumice linked to ancient eruption [...not!]

Yahoo ^ | Monday, April 2, 2007 | Katarina Kratovac w/ contrib by Nicholas Paphits

[SunkenCiv]

The head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, said the discovery of the pumice would open a new field of study in Egyptology. "Geologists will help us study how ... natural disasters, such as the Santorini tsunami, affected the Pharaonic period," he said... While noting that layers of ash from Santorini have been found in Egypt's Nile Delta, he told The Associated Press that he thought it more likely the floating pumice was carried to the Sinai by regular ocean currents. The archaeological team found the pumice while excavating at Tel Habuwa in the desert northeast of Qantara, a town on the Suez Canal nearly 95 miles northeast of Cairo... "The pieces of lava stone were a surprise, but they were only part of the story," said team leader Mohamed Abdel Maqsud... Hawass did not elaborate on the geological tests that linked the Sinai pumice to Santorini, but said he was convinced more such lava would be found. "This is only the beginning," he said.

[SunkenCiv]

Sorry, but the previous claim that pumice from Thera was found in a New Kingdom context -- a claim that went unchallenged at least in the popular sources, and mostly still does -- was blown apart a few years ago when the pumice was found to be a chemical match with a different eruption, from a different volcano, and from a prehistoric time. Sturt Manning had saddled on this "evidence", and now acts like it doesn't matter. The fact that Zahi "Zowie" Hawass states that it is should give pause to pretty much anyone at this point.

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New Ice-Core Evidence Challenges the 1620s age for the Santorini (Minoan) Eruption
Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 25, Issue 3, March 1998, Pages 279-289 | 13 July 1997 | Gregory A. Zielinski, Mark S. Germani
Posted on 07/29/2004 3:25:45 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1180724/posts

ARCHAEOLOGY: New Carbon Dates Support Revised History of Ancient Mediterranean
Science Magazine | 4/28/2006 | Michael Balter
Posted on 04/27/2006 7:59:30 PM EDT by Lessismore
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622847/posts

Olive branch solves a Bronze Age mystery
Yahoo/MSNBC (Science) | 3:04 p.m. ET April 27, 2006 | Kathleen Wren
Posted on 04/28/2006 8:59:40 AM EDT by The_Victor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623102/posts

Ancient Volcano, Seeds And Treerings, Suggest Rewriting Late Bronze Age Mediterranean History (More)
Cornell University | 4-28-2006 | Alex Kwan
Posted on 04/29/2006 3:24:20 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623821/posts

Santorini Eruption Much larger Than Originally Believed
University Rhode Island | 8-23-2006 | Todd McLeish
Posted on 08/23/2006 8:58:47 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688940/posts

A Culture Shaped By Natural Disasters (Thera/Akrotiri)
Kathimerini | 1-16-2007 | Christos Doumas
Posted on 01/16/2007 6:33:09 PM EST by blam
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[blam]

Ancient Egypt Cities Leveled by Massive Volcano, Lava Find Suggests

[Fred Nerks]

He could look a little closer to home...

This lavaflow covers an area twice the size of Lebanon.

See the volcanoes on the Arabian Peninsula:

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200602/volcanic.arabia.htm

[gleeaikin]

I don’t have time to read all the links tonight, but have long thought that Egypt was influenced by something other that the Santorini vulcanism. My guess was the major eruption of Mt. Etna of 1,500 BC +- 50 years. I have been unable to find very much info on this eruption.

However, I have also discovered in more recent periods of volcanic activity that there may be several major actions around a tectonic plate within a short period of time, and perhaps this is what happened here. Look forward to delving more deeply into this interesting link. Thanks again SunkenCiv.

[Berosus]

I see that one volcano is close enough to dump ash on Medina.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200602/volcanic/default.htm

On the outskirts of Medina...

[SunkenCiv]

...and wouldn’t that be a shame, eh? ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

This is taken from a page about pole shift (I guess that's right in the link, isn't it ; ) and it should be noted that for ash to be buried 20 feet under the current level of the Nile delta requires that the ash accumulated when the land level was 20 feet lower, i.e., that it was submerged by the waters of the Mediterranean, or that the sealevel was lower. Assuming that it's correct it's more evidence that if the caldera was formed by a single remarkably large eruption, it must have happened well before the island was occupied.

Scientific Evidence Supporting A Pole Shift - In December of 1985 the discovery of volcanic ash twenty feet underground in the Nile delta was found to be identical to the ash from an enormous eruption approximately 3,500 years ago on the Greek island of Santorini. This discovery proves that the effects of the eruption (22,000 times greater than the effect of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima) reached as far as Egypt and supports a theory (presented in chapters two and eight of Noone's book) linking the eruption to the seemingly miraculous events associated with the biblical Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. -- (refers to Richard Noone's 5/5/2000)

[SunkenCiv]

ARCHAEOLOGY: New Carbon Dates Support Revised History of Ancient Mediterranean
Science Magazine | 4/28/2006 | Michael Balter
Posted on 04/27/2006 7:59:30 PM EDT by Lessismore
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622847/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622847/posts?page=26#26