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You know, Rene, given the timing of the alleged fall of Troy, somewhere in the 13th century BC and the fact that the Sea Peoples are believed to have originated in that area to begin their rampage through the Eastern Med., I wonder if the two events are connected.

Mycenean Greece did not survive for long before they too were overrun by the Sea People, who were, judging from subsequent Philistine artifacts, at least mildly Greek themselves.

If, as archaeologists believe, Homer's "Troy" (one of the ones that Schliemann dug straight through to get to the bottom of the hill) was felled by an earthquake AND the thought that the Sea Peoples were set in motion by some catastrophic event, perhaps it could be considered that the Sea Peoples arose from the "Trojans" and others displaced by the quake? There can certainly be no argument that Turkey is a highly active earthquake zone.

I don't mean to interrupt the conversation Min, but I thought you'd want to know that it was cooler today in Death Valley than where you are. And, at last report, there were no serial killers there.

Sound inviting?

I doubt I could float in my pool with a glass of wine in Death Valley.

I'll settle. The serial killers are a good 40 miles away which seems far enough.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5196362.stm

barakat is not an amatuer after all

Very....very, interesting, GG.

It will probably be 15 years before they show that over here, though.

GG wrote:barakat is not an amatuer after all

Let's not get carried away; Barakat only gets a namecheck for leading them to the chunks of glass. At no point does it describe his CV, and he played no part in actually formulating this theory.

Minimalist wrote:Very....very, interesting, GG.

It will probably be 15 years before they show that over here, though.

The BBC often put the transcripts of their Horizon doumentaries on the internet afterwards.

I'll shall watch it with added interest tonight now that I know Barakat is involved

GG wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5196362.stm

barakat is not an amatuer after all

Thanks for the news GG.

I don't think anyone ever said Barakat was not an experience geologist, they just said, which is true, he is not an expert on the pyramids. His link with the tv program is that he is lead author of Aly A. Barakat, Vincenzo de Michele, Giancarlo Negro, Benito Piacenza and Romano Serra, Some new data on the distribution of Libyan Desert Glass (Great Sand Sea, Egypt)

I agree, Doug, that I never saw anything like that quoted or printed outside of this forum. But it was said here. Like a lot of stuff though.

Okay, since no one else wants to say it, I'll say it. Assuming that there was a Tunguska-like atmospheric blast at some time in pre-history over the Sahara region it is safe to assume that the effects were not limited to making glass. What impact on the residents could be imagined?

Aside from incineration?

I guess it would depend on when in the past and how far away an observer was.

In other threads we've speculated on what the reasons would have been for the sudden decision to move "out of Africa" given that the conditions are alleged to have been wetter and milder in the past. Perhaps they were blasted out?

I have no doubt about that Min. Not only man, but his food sources as well. Nature can be both insidious and violent. Even the flora migrates, although slowly.

I can't help thinking of the proverbial character that we see on the news. Standing on his property, with his house and maybe his loved ones scattered over four counties, saying "I'll rebuild, I'm staying right here".

Early man may have been a tad brighter. Whatever may have happened, man had to follow his food sources though.

Even during massive warfare, which appears in all legends around the world, every barnyard chicken will flee.

Or, early man did not have government subsidized flood insurance!