Three Ancient Romanian Maps Bolster Accuracy Of "Persian Gulf" Name (Arabian Gulf?)

Tehran Times ^ | 1-15-2005

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There is also some evidence that the Mediterranean was dry at one point, when Gibralter was sealed.

[Hegemony Cricket]

No - actually Paint. Word sucks for maps.

[SunkenCiv]

Okay... Herodotus refers to "the Arabian Gulf" a few times, but it means the Gulf of Suez apparently. The Red Sea to him is the Erythraean Sea.

[Cronos]

If I'm not mistaken, the RED sea was called the Arabian gulf...

[blam]

"There is also some evidence that the Mediterranean was dry at one point, when Gibralter was sealed."

Drilling data (and salt deposits on the bottom) indicate that the Mediterranean was last completely dry five million years ago. I believe it was blocked off at Gilbralter during the Ice Age, the water was severly lowered, it was seperated into a least two and possibly three different areas. When it was refilled it also crashed through the Bosphorus and flooded the fresh water Black Sea (Noah's Flood?) raising the water level there by around 500 feet. That was in 5600BC.

[blam]

"There is also some evidence that the Mediterranean was dry at one point, when Gibralter was sealed."

Drilling data (and salt deposits on the bottom) indicate that the Mediterranean was last completely dry five million years ago. I believe it was blocked off at Gilbralter during the Ice Age, the water was severly lowered, it was seperated into a least two and possibly three different areas. When it was refilled it also crashed through the Bosphorus and flooded the fresh water Black Sea (Noah's Flood?) raising the water level there by around 500 feet. That was in 5600BC.

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You can find mention of the "Messinian Salinity Crisis" here, which suggests that the whole drying and refilling took place between 5 and 6 million years ago. I think the Black Sea flooding was a seperate, though similiar in some ways, event.

[blam]

"You can find mention of the "Messinian Salinity Crisis" here, which suggests that the whole drying and refilling took place between 5 and 6 million years ago. I think the Black Sea flooding was a seperate, though similiar in some ways, event."

Thanks.

I think most who are familiar with this subject share your view/opinion.

I think there were a series of cascading collapses from each section of the 'dams' in the Mediterranean columating with the Black Sea flood.
Here is a map of the world with the water level lowered by a little over 300 feet...some think it was as dramatic as 500 feet. Regardless, check out the map and notice how the Med. was 'sectioned' even at 300ft.

BTW, I suspect the Gulf Of Mexico may have gone through a similar scenario. I have some 7,000 year old wood from a coastal cypress forest that was dredged up from Santa Rosa Sound in northwest Florida, this forest must have been flooded at the time of the last Ice Age melt (surge) that has been dated to 7-8,000 years ago.

[Cronos]

Nuts to you -- blam is a respected member of FR -- his posts are enjoyable, his replies well thought out and his ideas refreshing and interesting. They expand our horizons and make us just that little bit more knowledgeable. You ought to be ashamed of yourself ridiculing a person of such stature.

[Cronos]

He who fails to study history.......

[Cronos]

Dry? I thought it was an inland sea. BTW, Jabb al Tariq is one side of the pillars of Hercules, what's the other called?

[Cronos]

it was seperated into a least two and possibly three different areas.

Where would those ridges be? one possible between the toe of Italy to Sicily to Libya, but the others?

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