[blam]

Slow news day. I liked this article so much, I decided to post it again.

[blam]

Disaster The Struck The Ancients

[jwfiv]

Very cool.

I here tell there ae some even more recent craters in Iraq, coincident also with the end of a tyrant's reign.

Very cool.

[andrew1957]

I think it's about time that more large meteors land in a few selected places, to end Middle East Civilization as it exist's today.

[AntiGuv]

Intriguing! Do you have a link to the first posting? I'd like to read over the comments.

[patriciaruth]

Thanks.

[PatrickHenry]

Try this for a change. PING.

[KellyAdmirer]

Ladies and gentlemen, scientists of all persuasions, step right up!

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Hurry, hurry, operators are standing by the phones, first ten callers get authentic "Photos from Space" that PROVE, yes, PROVE that there be strange bumps in the ground somewhere in the general vicinity of that thing you need an answer for that might be, er, must be the elusive FIREBALL FROM THE HEAVENS that will get you and your theory into the scientific textbooks!

[RightWhale]

Immanuel Velikovsky presents lots of information in his various popular books about natural causes of the events of the Exodus. While the date of the Exodus is uncertain at best, many of the phenomena listed could be attributed to a bombardment of meteorites. Velikovsky goes on to postulate that the huge deposits of crude oil in the region could have been from a rain of oil coming at the same time and from the same source.

[Migraine]

The catastrophic effect of these could explain the mystery of why so many early cultures went into sudden decline around 2300 BC.

No, it doesn't; do the math. If the civ's went out in 2300 BC because of the 2000 BC meteor, then they "knew it was coming" 300 years in advance and just folded.

On the other hand, the timing is just such (2000 BC) that the flaming debris from the meteor could well fit the description of what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah just about exactly at that time.

[searchandrecovery]

This is hugh! Hello, Sodom Holiday Inn? Could I book a room this weekend? Me and the missus need a weekend alone, maybe tour Gomorrah. Take in the sights. LOVE the food, yes, although a little bit pillar-of-salty, though.

[Interesting Times]

Ping.

[Little Bill]

There is some evidence that the el-'Ubaid culture was inturupted, with a layer of silt and mud seperating the begining and continuation of the culture that developed into Sumeria.

Dosen't quite fit in to this time line though, I wonder if the "Bull From Heaven" is significant.

[LiteKeeper]

Or maybe there was a Flood that wiped out civilization in the Middle East 4000 years ago.

[Mike Darancette]

BUMP

[Ligeia]

You post the most fascinating articles. This crater looks to be a possible "God-Zot." :^)

A good deal of speculation going on which is always fun; especially when ancient histories, lore, and cultures are involved. This article combined with the one about Iran opening up it's Persian past make for great reading. Thanks for the post.

[Mulder]

Looks like the desert demon known as "allah" was pretty incompetent when it came to stopping a meteor.

Big surprise there.

[navyblue]

Why is it that you can never find a meteor when you need one???

[Rockpile]

I've got the Pierce translation of the Oera Linda Book {which became public in the 1860s in Holland} and it dates the destruction of Altland and upheavals in the world to 2193 BC.

[Political Junkie Too]

-PJ

[Light Speed]

"Mars looks like the photo of a Murder Victim"...From Graham Hancocks book..The Mars Mystery.

Valles Marineris..7 Kilometers deep,...200 Kilometers at widest point...4000 Kilometers long.

Tharsis Bulge in photo left..marked by 3 shield Volcanoes, Aris Mons,Pavonis Mons,Ascraeus Mons.

On the other side of Mars..the impact sites;

Hellas crater; 5 klms deep 2000 klms wide.
Argyre crater; 3 klms deep 630 klms wide.
Isidis crater; over 1000 klms wide.

The impactor which generated Isidis is est at 600 klms wide.

The impactor which hit the Yucatan roughly 65 millions yrs ago on earth and hypothetically terminated the reign of the dinosaurs was estmimated to roughly 10 klms wide

Like Mars...some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn are heavily cratered on one orbital side or hemisphere...like they were "shot gunned",

From Tom Vanflanderens theory of an exploding planet..to Dr Victor Clube and Napier'st theory of Super comets being torn to pieces in the gravity wells of Jupiter and Saturn..their fragment trains locked in ellipse ..eventually to spiral into the sun..or the planets and moons of the inner solar system.