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`Noah's flood' is starting point for dive into deep-water archaeology `Titanic' explorer Robert Ballard hopes sterile Black Sea floor will yield extraordinarily well-preserved ancient ships
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As the story is told in the Old Testament, the great flood lasted
for 40 days and 40 nights and submerged every living thing on Earth
beneath 24 feet of water, sparing only Noah, his family and the pairs
of animals he protected on his ark.
Scientists have never found Noah or his ark, but they believe in
his flood. It happened about 7,600 years ago, when the Mediterranean
Sea, swollen by melted glaciers, breached a natural dam separating it
from the freshwater lake known today as th...
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The Black Sea: a History.(Book Review)
History Today
; The Black Sea A History Charles King Oxford UP 276 pp 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 199241619 CAN A SEA--the sea itself--have a knowable history? In the case of the Black Sea, probably yes: one of the many strange things about it. Modern research suggests it originated as recently as around 7,500
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Evidence of great flood found on Black Sea floor
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Evidence of great flood found on Black Sea floor Human artifacts, perhaps 7,000 years old, discovered 300 feet under water By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press Wednesday, September 13, 2000 Washington -- Artifacts found at the bottom of the Black Sea provide new evidence that humans faced a great
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Artifacts Found In the Black Sea May Be Evidence Of Biblical Flood
The Washington Post
; Archaeologists said yesterday they have discovered the remains of a man-made structure more than 300 feet below the surface of the Black Sea, providing dramatic new evidence of an apocalyptic flood 7,500 years ago that may have inspired the Biblical story of Noah. The expedition also spotted
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New archaeology and ancient stories; A catastrophic Black Sea flood 7,600 years ago may be source of the.(USA)
The Christian Science Monitor
; For most of the past 200 years, archaeologists have struggled to discover any evidence that one of the greatest stories in the religious anthology is more than just tribal myth. The biblical flood and Noah's building of the ark harks back to the earliest days of Western religion, providing a link
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Explorer who discovered the `Titanic' sets out to prove that Noah's flood formed Black Sea.(Foreign News)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: David Usborne THE BIBLE tells us how the Great Flood happened, compelling Noah to herd all of animal life into his Ark. The skies opened and it rained incessantly, in fact for 40 days and 40 nights. But some scientists have another theory altogether and this week an expedition will leave
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