I see the date 4,200 years ago. I wonder if this is the same period of the First Intermediate Period in Egypt in which Ipuwer wrote so vividly of terrible environmental calamities in Egypt. I was doing some checking on Meteor strikes around that period, and in addition to the crater in the Iraq marshes which SC first brought to our attention, I also saw some information about several craters in Argentina also from that time period. I think one was 13 miles in diameter. Not big enough for an extinction event, but certainly capable of causing noticeable earth changes.
Disaster That Struck The Ancients
BBC | 7-26-2001 | Fekri Hassan
Posted on Sat Dec 8 17:51:43 2001 by blam
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