Studies on the impact of tsunamis and earthquakes on the coasts of Oman have identified signs of flood that took place in Ras Al Hadd about 4,500 years ago. Photos courtesy - Dr Goesta Hoffmann
Posted on 11/06/2014 5:01:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Geologists from GUtech, in cooperation with archeologists from the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, have dug up evidence of a tsunami or severe storm that hit Ras Al Hadd about 4,500 years ago...
The fact that there were two settlement phases, the first of which was marked by buildings made of sand brick, and the second by mud brick, suggests the village was destroyed at one point and rebuilt.
The remains date back to between 3,100 and 2,700 BC, and the evidence suggests they were built one after the other, meaning the people didn't leave the area despite having their homes heavily damaged by cyclone or tsunami.
The geologists looked at the land around the settlement where they also found evidence of flooding. There was charcoal in one of the layers of sediment, and shells with both halves still joined, untouched by humans...
The presence of the shells with both halves still joined suggests they hadn't been eaten or used for any other purposed. Instead, they had been washed onto the shore by a wave and died on land.
Extreme event
The evidence isn't strong enough to determine whether the flooding in Ras Al Hadd 4,500 years back was from a tsunami or cyclone, like Gonu or Phet which hit Oman in recent years, or Nilofar, which came close to the coast last week, but there is no doubt the event was extreme.
To find out more precisely what kind of event it was, Dr Hoffmann says international collaboration with Pakistan and India would be required, since a tsunami that hit Oman would also have hit their coasts, leaving evidence there, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofoman.com ...
Studies on the impact of tsunamis and earthquakes on the coasts of Oman have identified signs of flood that took place in Ras Al Hadd about 4,500 years ago. Photos courtesy - Dr Goesta Hoffmann
/johnny
And the big question is “How were minorities, women and children most affected adversely?”
Did global warming cause it?
REPARATIONS DEMANDED!
Of course it did. How can you ask?
Forty-five hundred years ago - wasn’t that about the time of the Great Flood?
I don't know. I must have gone temporarily insane. I should have known globull warming was the cause. I will try to keep my sanity from now on.
:-)
The oft-cited date of the OT Great Flood is 2200 BC. There remains zero evidence that it ever took place.
Dang! 45 centuries too early!
I need glasses. I read “mega wave hit Obama”.
Pretty much dead on.
It’s a little late to be reporting on it now, isn’t it?
Well, the people in Oman rebuilt quickly, so you’d have to read “the whole world” in the same way it’s used when Luke claims “all the world” participated in the census. But yes.
I’ve been to Oman......on a secret base called SEEB. Back in when the war kicked off.
I thought the Great Flood was the Black Sea Deluge (ca. 5600 BC)?
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