Mega wave hit Oman's coast 4,500 years ago

Times of Oman ^ | November 03, 2014 | Sarah MacDonald

[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.

[Fightin Whitey]

Megawave hit Orman's arse 48 hours ago.

[MeshugeMikey]

“Wouldn’t “someone” who discovered this fact become really famous!! “

if they were to get the word out from a secure bunker somewhere

[Resettozero]

...if they were to get the word out from a secure bunker somewhere>

R2z get old. Not hearing well.

Huh?

[MeshugeMikey]

“ACCORDING TO ANCIENT JEWISH HISTORIAN JOSEPHUS, along with Irish archbishop and chronologist James Ussher, Bible historians and most conservative Christian scholars, the Flood of Noah’s time occurred between 2500 BC and 2300 BC — probably close to 2348 BC.”

2015..plus 2500 adds up to almost precisely 4500 years age when the flood in oman is presumed to have occured

[Resettozero]

Thanks. Now about that secure bunker somewhere...?

[LonePalm]

That is roughly the time frame for the Burkle Crater, an asteroid strike in the South Indian Ocean.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[MeshugeMikey]

U was jesting

[Resettozero]

U was jesting.

One last time. With a pretty please. What ARE you talking about? I'm interested in the thread.

[MeshugeMikey]

I was jesting about the need to hide out in a bunker to release the comparative dates of the Oman FLood and the Great Flood.

U was jesting was supposed to be typed I was jesting

[Resettozero]

Luke records that Caesar Augustus gave the command that all the world be registered. Caesar probably meant all the Roman controlled world and any other place the census-takers found.

The Roman god-ruler said what he meant...EVERYWHERE. I don’t know how far they got.

[mcshot]

Just several billion to line the pockets of crooked locals.

[SunkenCiv]

I’m not being facetious. There is zero physical evidence that it ever took place. There have been plenty of bogus claims about it, just as there have been regarding the destruction of the pharaoh’s army as it pursued the Israelites during the Exodus. There was a hoax story just the other day that 400 skeletons had been found in the Gulf of Suez, etc, I saw that shared on Facebook.

[SunkenCiv]

Some of the human remains seem to be attempting to call for help on their Blackberries, but alas, they were *actual* blackberries.

[SunkenCiv]

That was a claim by Ryan and Pitman, but it makes a better fit (if one must) with the legend of Atlantis. Ryan and Pitman claiming that the Flood happened before the anecdotal creation of the Earth kinda mitigates against it as well. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Nice link, thanks!

[blam]

Good, good. Thanks.

[gleeaikin]

Perhaps you mean 2400 BC?

[gleeaikin]

There is also apparently a 4,000 or more? crater in the Iraq marshes. Is that still the accepted age, or could it be older? Was the crater 2 miles in diameter?

[trebb]

The oft-cited date of the OT Great Flood is 2200 BC. There remains zero evidence that it ever took place.

My Bible says it happened - good enough for me.

[Resettozero]

There was a hoax story just the other day that 400 skeletons had been found in the Gulf of Suez, etc, I saw that shared on Facebook.

Thank you for replying to me. We disagree on both evidence for the Great Flood and lack of evidence that the Pharaoh's army was destroyed during a chase of his regretfully-freed slaves, way back then. Hoaxes prove or disprove nothing more than someone's dishonesty.

I can see better your POV, which I had neglected to do previously. This should better serve me as I continue to read your FR posts in the future.