[JimRed]

I recall reading a fictional book many years ago about the filling of the Mediterranean basin- in prehistoric times but in the presence of humans. I think it was called “And The Waters Prevailed”, but I could be wrong.

[GL of Sector 2814]

Harry Turtledove wrote a novel called, "Down in the Bottomlands". It's an alternate history in which the Atlantic Ocean did not reflood the Mediterranean Sea 5.5 million years ago in the Miocene Epoch, as it did in our history. The Mediterranean Basin thus remains dry to the present day in this time line, as a vast sunken desert called the Bottomlands, averaging nearly two kilometers below mean sea level, with summer temperatures reaching well above 40°C and with little or no rainfall.

While there are still humans (and Neanderthals, for that matter) running around, history is utterly different.