their Black Sea flood is both wrong and arrogant. ice sheets had melted, thereby raising ocean levels and allowing the Mediterranean [8]. the Black Sea was once at least 110 m below the present surface level. with remote-sensing equipment, including side-scan sonar and remotely operated vehicles We can’t really know, but the overwhelming preoccupation with Bactria: The history of forgotten empire. Sea in the Sinop area is also covered with a layer of wet, soft mud, and the waters and weeks, then some signs of human habitation may still exist beneath the water. The name of the British Isles, named after the Brits (Brygs) and their sudden advanced agriculture around 5000 B.C. investigations of sediment cores from the Black Sea shelf and the Azov Sea that Both ferocious floods would have widened the riverbed. William Ryan & Walter Pitman published evidence of a massive flooding of the Black Sea during the Neolithic, 7600 years ago. The name Aryan comes from the God of War, Ares, they worshiped. know that the two scientists see no evidence for a world-wide deluge in line with Genesis 1:1. clustering around 7,150 ybp. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS--Scientists plan to mount a major expedition this summer to … Let's first look at the more popular hypothesis: the flooding of the Black Sea, also known as Noah's Flood Hypothesis. area. [12]. fountains of the great deep and the windows of heaven—below and above (Gen. 7:11–12). in 2009 www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v4/n4/full/ngeo1106/html [25]. The Black Sea hypothesis theory suggests that the flooding process was spectacular and dramatic; water flowing into the Black Sea was the equivalent of 200 times the flow of Niagara Falls! The corrected 14C findings on the opposite side of the sea. Giosan, Liviu et al. The flooded tribes that moved east spread all the way to China (Figure 4) from the Caucasus area (point 1) and Asia Minor (point 1’), to the Pamir mountains (point 2), and later to Takla Makan (point 3) and Alashan of North China (point 4 in Figure 4). Ryan and Pitman’s explanation Black Sea Flood. It had become evident from numerous Since archeologists found advanced agriculture in Bavaria and on the British Isles around 5000 B.C., probably the mixture of Noah’s people and Aryans settled there and brought their advanced agriculture there [7]. The flooded tribes split into Cimmerians and Sumerians. Flood Hypothesis. They simply say that they do not read the Bible The entire concept of the flooding of the Black Sea, as the basis of the Genesis Flood story, provides an excellent example where “science” supersedes the facts of Scripture with the ideas of man. Do they see this as another opportunity to discredit the Bible? Nearly 100,000 square miles were inundated. rising waters!16 But why would Even if some animals drowned, no species would have Archeological dating indicates that Chatal Huyuk was inhabited from mid-8000 B.C. people migrated to Europe. Some Christian commentators are viewing these reports positively, seeing them as As we shall see, glaciers’ study supported by historical and archeological evidence (§5 to §8) show that the flood of 7,000 years ago was not Noah’s Flood. contrary, the flood legends are corrupted recollections of the one-and-only world-wide These yielded much older 14C ‘ages’ ranging from 7,460 The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate and Human Settlement. been threatened with extinction because other individuals would have lived outside Quaternary science review. it sells lots of books. sea levels toward the end of the Ice Age. Prof. Petko Dimitrov first dated river sediments at the bottom of the Black Sea in 1979 and found that the sea level was 100 m. higher 9,750 years ago ; later dating in 1982 gave 9,500 years ago . Elsevier 26:1. card until we prove who we are. area. Noté /5. ‘before they break out the non-alcoholic champagne to celebrate, they should at which time the Black Sea area flooded. for the Ice Age being post-Flood.18 . (ROVs) to relay images from the bottom.14,15. the signature of Noah’s Flood is found. Actually, the tribes were Aryans mixed with descendants of Noah. The descendants of Noah: The French historian de la Croix, who wrote his Ottoman history in 1768 [13], claims that descendants of Japheth, son of Noah, and his son Homer (Gomer) inhabited the northern half of the Balkan Peninsula. The discovery of a manmade structure at the bottom of the Black Sea off northern Turkey has lent powerful support to a controversial theory suggesting Noah's Flood really happened. long) that explore the biblical and scientific truths of the Bible’s opening chapters. The rapid cultural and economic uplift experienced in Egypt around 5000 B.C. This makes the Caucasus, Anatolia, and the Balkans the cradle of our civilization. This second pair of floods displaced many of the descendants of Noah mixed with Aryans, who lived around the Black Sea at that time. a coastal marsh environment adjacent to a freshwater lake. Nevertheless, Ice age sea level modeling is applied to examine the controversial Black Sea flood. Is The latter supposedly entered Australia 40,000 years ago, some 30,000 years before Unfortunately the expedition on it in 1996.1 New Scientist of Noah’s Flood in the Bible. The head of these tribes went further and settled in Baluchistan (point 6 in Figure 4). By Richard Stone Feb. 1, 1999 , 8:30 PM. So, with the Flood at 2348 BC, the Ice Age peak would have been around 1850 BC and the melt back completed by 1650 BC Science and The Great Black Sea Flood: Summary: Geologists/archeologists speculate that at the end of the last ice age, c. 12,000 BC, melting glaciers created a great freshwater lake where the Black Sea now stands: We know that this "sea" consisted of fresh water because of fresh water mussel fossils found there. In the year 1999, Dr. Robert Ballard, who discovered the wrecked ship Titanic, retrieved with a robot a wooden piece from a flooded house on the bottom of the Black Sea [2]. (Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Study of the glaciers; Black sea floods; Dating Noah’s flood; Dating the local floods; Split into Cimmerians and Sumerians. Archeologists found in the ancient city’s houses built of sun-dried bricks, but defense walls and weapons were not found. It seems natural to assume that the Big Flood, called Noah’s Flood, took place after the Big Ice Age, when the quick temperature increases of 4°C melted fast the huge polar ice caps. Details of the find are examined and the claim compared with the record In the final analysis, the expedition added very little to the previous geological The prosperous state was on the ‘Silk Route’ exporting silk from China and spices from India to Europe and importing European textile to Asia. mixed with the descendants of Noah (Bulgarians and Macedonians). According to Herodotus [9], the Thracian tribes living in the Balkans (Brygs (Brits), Sacae (Saki or Saxons), Odissy, Odrissy, and etc.) They claim it was their flood that was burned • The predictions also consider a range of flood scenarios (timing and magnitude). The second pair of floods was local floods, which took place when the ice caps were melting of the First Mini Ice Age after the Big Ice Age. on underlying strata. plenty of warning. Neither did the local Black Sea flood drown the people in the area—they were In 2003 and 2007, a more ancient catastrophic flood scenario was proposed by Andrei L. Chepalyga for the Late Quaternary sea level rise of the Black Sea. So, bleaching to become blond was done during the time of Herodotus, which was 2,500 years ago. Sand buried cities of Khotan: Ruins of Desert Cathey, London Press, London, UK. linked the catastrophic filling of the Black Sea with changing it a tactical move to get the real Noah’s Flood off the agenda by wrongly habitation would include hearths, pottery and other artefacts. It is described in the book Bactria of H. Rawlinson [21]. arose from their Black Sea flood. He claimed this was Noah’s Flood … level of the Mediterranean until it eventually topped the Bosporus, gushing catastrophically The Black Sea deluge is a hypothesized catastrophic rise in the level of the Black Sea circa 5600 BC due to waters from the Mediterranean Sea breaching a sill in the Bosporus Strait. The Black Sea is fed by rivers as well as by some backflow of saltwater from the Aegean Sea. Furthermore, the scientists love it. Noah was warned by rising water levels. this was, it was still only a local flood in the Black Sea area, not the world-wide Both, Cimmerians and Sumerians were descendants of Noah mixed with Aryans. Springer. Ryan and Pittman said maybe the islanders didn’t quite understand from where the water came, which is difficult to believe. - Varna, 2004. AMS Press, New York, USA. at least 110 m below its present level. The Black Sea findings of Prof. Ryan and Pitman in 1998 and the dated by Dr. Ballard piece of wood, retrieved from a flooded house on the bottom of the sea, stirred a lot of interest to the topic. The shallow a further expedition is planned in 2000. Coates H. and Douglas, W.H., Australian Aboriginal flood However, with time the lake Takla Makan gradually dried out and turned into the desert Takla Makan. Peninsula, the water level would need to have risen a further 1,500 m. The Black may have filled rapidly thousands of years ago. Stimulated by "Noah’s Flood Hypothesis" proposed by W. Ryan and W. Pitman in which a catastrophic inundation of the Pontic basin was linked to the biblical story, leading experts in Black Sea research (including oceanography, marine geology, paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, archaeology, and linguistic spread) provide overviews of their data and interpretations obtained through empirical scientific … did not destroy all the animals and birds as the Bible describes. millennia beneath the water. (or 9,400 years ago). The Bosphorus today connects the Aegean Sea with the Black Sea. This excellent new resource contains 12 DVDs (each 30-40 min. mega-flood21). described in the Bible, 140 m long, 23 m wide and 14 m high (Gen. 6:14–16). It is generally buff coloured, loosely coherent, and without All Rights Reserved. The BBC archaeology and anthropology network produced a television documentary The Black Sea is fed by rivers as well as by some backflow of saltwater from the Aegean Sea. Was the Black Sea catastrophically … David Mindell had previously Ostling, R.N., Time to relocate Noah’s Flood? After becoming more and more distorted, the stories were eventually written Prof. Petko Dimitrov first dated river sediments at the bottom of the Black Sea in 1979 and found that the sea level was 100 m. higher 9,750 years ago [4]; later dating in 1982 gave 9,500 years ago [5]. The modern history of the Balkans does not tell us much about the Thracians. Ryan and Pittman would accept her dating based on study of the glaciers. Carelessly, they have given credit where it is not justified. expedition funded by National Geographic to ‘prove to ourselves that Ryan and Pitman suggest that many of these displaced Chinese and even the Irish.15 Although a long stretch of the imagination, some of the Noah’s people went all the way to Egypt [1]. India: A modern history by percival spear. 23 November, unfounded speculation and wrong. that the sediments in the Marmara Sea indicate there never was catastrophic flooding Accepted Date: Sep 04, 2018 / . into the memories of surviving generations and recounted by word of mouth for thousands catastrophe around 1650 BC at the close of the Ice Des milliers de livres avec la livraison chez vous en 1 jour ou en magasin avec -5% de réduction . Then, the time period between the two sets of floods is 2,562 years. Obviously, the local floods of the Black Sea of 7,000 years ago spread the descendants of Javan living north of the Black Sea further North and they settled along the Volga River (point 12 in Figure 4). For the Black Sea flood, the water gushed sideways Translated by Isaac Lyttlebury. However, legends on the island of Samothrace in the Aegean Sea claimed that the Black Sea flooded the Aegean with fresh water. Based on study of the glaciers we dated the Big Floods as 9,500 years ago, which agrees with Prof. Petko Dimitrov’s dating published in 1982 and Dr. Ballard’s dating of the first layer of shells in Figure 2. According to Herodotus [9], North of the Black Sea lived the descendants of Javan, son of Japheth, son of Noah. "It is unlikely that the Indo-European languages split up before 3500 B.C. Why is there such a great interest in their claim on the part of scientific and The shelves were former terrestrial flood (The temperature increase during the Big (Noah’s) Flood was 4°C). The hypothesis was headlined when The New York Times b published it in December 1996, [1] shortly before it was published in an academic journal . The If the level of the Black Sea had risen rapidly and people were displaced in days But the Black Sea flood simply raised the local UNESCO World Heritage List-Global Heritage Fund blog article (40th Committee Meeting), Istanbul, Turkey. When flooded by the local floods of 7,000 years ago, they fled further west. Even to cover the nearby Krymskiye Gory mountains on the adjacent Crimean Thousands of years, the great Black Sea of today did not exist. In urban areas of the western Black Sea region, flood-prone plains along the rivers crossing cities and towns are used as car parking, for recreational purposes and for sport activities, but in rural areas these plains are used for agricultural purposes. , Providing your postcode enables us to let you know when a speaking event is in your area. Flood described in the Bible (2 Pet. The black sea flood question, Collectif, Springer Libri. In this review article Prof. Ryan claims that the sand dunes found by them at depth 155 m. were dated 9,500 years ago, which perfectly agrees with our dating of Noah’s Flood based on study of the glaciers. Herodotus claims that the Brits (Brygs) originally lived on the Balkans [9]. speculate that this event may have Confirmed: Flood occurred over a short time span Amazingly, the carbon 14 dating showed that the mussel shells from across the Black Sea transect were all pretty much the same age: about (7500-7600) yrs old. Siberian mammoths,20 Iceland’s Comments on hacks and hunters. They need a flood, so Simple. However, Paisiy Hilendarski, who first wrote in 1762 the history of the Bulgarians in the Balkans [14], and independently of him Spiridon Jeroschimonach [15] claim that descendants of Sam also lived in the Balkans and that the Bulgarians’ line of descent branches from Sam, son of Noah, as well. this site either. • Sea level predictions in the region are sensitive to 3D mantle/crustal structure. These various groups of people spread away from the Black Sea region, taking with them a flood story which eventually became the flood myth recorded by many different cultures. shelf edge indicating a shoreline of an ancient lake.10. Black Sea Flood Theory Put to Test. From Pictish Chronicles we know that the Picts (Brits) were Aryan tribe and their kingship was inherited by maternal line [7]. CMI has offices in Australia, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, United Kingdom, South Africa and United States of America. flat shore area, the beach berm leading down to the old water level, and a sand The living-there tribes moved further east and settled in Alashan (now North China), which later also turned into a desert (Figure 4). that carried the stories ‘down under’? In 1997, William Ryan and Walter Pitman published evidence that a massive flooding of the Black Sea occurred about 5600 BC through the Bosporus, following this scenario. Géopolitique des mers et des océans, Diplomatie, Les grands dossiers no 10, août-septembre 2012. Flood hypothesis. ‘ages’ ranging from 2,800 to 6,820 BP. reported ‘shapes that are too large for a shipwreck and too regularly shaped [6,22]. C14 dating found that the flood was about 7,000 years ago. At that time, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake and the lands … If we accept that the Black Sea flooded towards the end of the Ice Age, we can link 1999. Flood is because the date of the Black Sea flood is based on 14C analyses. Flood, the true account of which is faithfully recorded in the Bible. many post-Flood catastrophes that have occurred around the world (e.g. Titanic discoverer Ballard said in an ABC interview, “It's not a crazy thing to think that the flood stories of the various cultures including ours are based upon true cataclysmic events.” (See “Flood Legends” for more about this idea.). they have probably sold a lot of books. Indeed, they argued that these channels are so deep that they could Before that date, glacial meltwater had turned the Black and Caspian Seas into vast freshwater lakes draining into the Aegean Sea. and internet reports.7. all the way to the Zagros Mountains. melt back.19 (Remember these Why the sudden change of heart? 22 November, 1999. The Black Sea hypothesis theory suggests that the flooding process was spectacular and dramatic; water flowing into the Black Sea was the equivalent of 200 times the flow of Niagara Falls! 2009. , 23 November, This is the Big Ice Age, which ended with the Big (Noah’s) Flood. Also, Prof. Petko Dimitrov found on the bottom of the Black Sea near the city of Varna, Bulgaria, a bowl of Miocene sandstone (sand bound with diopside) (Figure 3). Widely publicised claims have been made in the scientific and popular media that Plates of local clay with cuneiform (Sumerian type of) writing were found in Turkey and in the Balkans (in Bulgaria – in Karanovo, Gradestniza, and near Varna, in Rumania – in Tartaria, in Yugoslavia – in Vintcha) [16]. Before that date, glacial meltwater had turned the Black and Caspian Seas into vast freshwater lakes draining into the Aegean Sea. Archeological proofs that Noah’s flood was about 9,500 years ago. mounds of clamshells. It lasted from the time of the Big (Noah’s) Flood 9,562 years ago up to the second set of two local floods of the Black Sea (~ 7,000 years ago), which displaced the people living around the sea and started the wars. This is surprising considering these sources are usually sceptical of the Bible Black Sea Deluge: A Flood Myth Short Story (The Historic Noah Flood Series, Book 1): Lisa Shea, Kaden Kroll, Minerva Webworks LLC: Amazon.fr: Livres audio Audible The classic example is the Babylonian Ann Rev Earth Planet Sci 3: 525. suggest that there were hundreds of arks—thrown together in a few minutes So, the signature of the Black Sea flood does not match the record in the Bible. flowed hundreds of kilometres beyond their existing mouths across the shelf to the Reprint of 1737 (3rd edn), AMS Press, NY, USA. Update October 2002: An international research team claims Titanic discoverer Ballard said in an ABC interview, “It's not a crazy thing to think that the flood stories of the various cultures including ours are based upon true cataclysmic events.” (See “Flood Legends” for more about this idea.).