[blam]

"Think Ur in Mesoptomia (Iraq), and other ancient sites."

Ur was a sea side town when Abraham lived there. Today, it is 100 miles inland. Silting.

[JRandomFreeper]

Yep. The great drying, as more ice is locked up in the ice caps.

Didn't help their irrigation techniques brought solvent salts to the surface.

We need a sea-level rise to bring life back to the former great fertile crescent. And fewer goats, and more trees.

/johnny