Re: Ancient civilazations and floods

Robert Grumbine wrote:

>
> Still hard to translate that to cultural flooding. There were
> some papers in the 90s in Science and Nature about the timing of
> the last 5-6 meters of sea level rise and the rise of ancient Egyptian
> civilization.

Rapid erosion might also account for such stories. I remember reading of a
village that was washed away by the sea in some very short (human as
opposed to geological) time period. 25 or 30 years or so.

A minor change in sea level could trigger such an event.

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