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Posted on 05/29/2012 5:32:20 AM PDT by Renfield
The mysterious fall of the largest of the world's earliest urban civilizations nearly 4,000 years ago in what is now India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh now appears to have a key culprit — ancient climate change, researchers say.
Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia may be the best known of the first great urban cultures, but the largest was the Indus or Harappan civilization. This culture once extended over more than 386,000 square miles (1 million square kilometers) across the plains of the Indus River from the Arabian Seato the Ganges, and at its peak may have accounted for 10 percent of the world population. The civilization developed about 5,200 years ago, and slowly disintegrated between 3,900 and 3,000 years ago — populations largely abandoned cities, migrating toward the east....
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Plus I can read 'blueprints'(1). As I 'kinda' did that for a living -- 1st as a Draftsman & then into Mechanical Engineering(2). So the drawing makes perfect sense Engineering wise]
(1) Generic Term for Architectural and Engineering Drawings and their copies.
(2) I picked up my 1st Drafting Pencil and put Lead to Paper in Sept of 1963 as a Sophomore in HS.(dang I'm gettin old.)
Sunken Civ reported several years ago on a 2 mile diameter crater found when the Iraq marshes were drained. I believe the age mentioned was around 2,000 BC, or 4,000 years ago. Around that time the Egyptians experienced what is called The First Intermediate Period, a time of hunger and chaos as reported especially in the Ipuwer papyrus. That event must have had a very negative effect on many civilizations in the entire Southwest Asian/Middle Eastern/Mediterranean region. Most likely cooling after the initial burn.
A search on “Prouty site:freerepublic.com” I think will show the topics. I’d do it, but I’m on dialup right now. :’)
In addition to the crater in the Iraq Marshes, there are also meteor craters in Argentina that date to around that same 4,000 ya period. I believe they were separated by about 200 years which fits with other world crises. Given Russia’s recent air burst, imagine what a mess would be caused by meteors/asteroids leaving craters several miles in diameter. The chart earlier on this site shows a definite temperature drop about 4,000 ya or slightly earlier.
I didn’t repost anything about the Iraq crater, but should have at least linked a topic or two that pertain to it. Maybe tomorrow. (yawn, stretch)
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