[Dreagon]

Yeah, I read that back during the last Ice Age the Black Sea was a fresh water inland lake that was much smaller than it is today, and the Mediterannian was also much lower in water level.

Then when the Ice Age ended, the Med started filling up and then broke through and filled up what is now the Black Sea. Since civilizations tend to hug shorelines, they ought to calculate where those ancient shorelines were, and then dive down there and start checking things out.

[patton]

Humans live on the edge - when the tiger comes, run in the water.

When the shark comes, run on the land.

That is why waterfront property is STILL so valuable.

[maine-iac7]

Since civilizations tend to hug shorelines, they ought to calculate where those ancient shorelines were, and then dive down there and start checking things out.

ummm - I have an acquaintance whose whole career is Underwater Archeology in the Mediterranean

[blam]

"Then when the Ice Age ended, the Med started filling up and then broke through and filled up what is now the Black Sea. Since civilizations tend to hug shorelines, they ought to calculate where those ancient shorelines were, and then dive down there and start checking things out"

It was much more catastrophic than that.

Sundaland

"This area when above water would have been twice the size of India, and included what we now call Indo-China, Malaysia and Indonesia. The South China Sea, the Gulf of Thailand and the Java Sea, formed the connecting parts.