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Some time ago SC posted some information about discovery of a 1 mile wide meteor crater in the Iraq marshes that seemed to have the age 2,000 BC. How might such an event have affected the Middle East 4 thousand years ago. Might a lot of people in a place like UR have suffered from flooding caused by a meteor smashing into the lower Euphrates? Might someone who had moved away and missed the problems have been noticed for their good luck in moving?

There seemed to have been a number of risings and fallings of various kingdoms and tribal groups around that time. Any more recent writings about this apparent meteor strike and its effects?

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