Noah's Flood The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History

Name: Noah's Flood The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History
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ISBN: 9780684859200

ISBN-10: 0684859203

ISBN-13: 9780684859200

Edition: 2000

Authors: William Ryan, Walter Pitman

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Over the millennia, the legend of a great deluge has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Now two distinguished geophysicists have discovered a catastrophic event that changed history, a gigantic flood 7,600 years ago in what is today the Black Sea. Using sound waves and coring devices to probe the sea floor, William Ryan and Walter Pitman revealed clear evidence that this inland body of water had once been a vast freshwater lake lying hundreds of feet below the level of the world's rising oceans. Sophisticated dating techniques confirmed that 7,600 years ago the mounting seas had burst through the narrow Bosporus valley, and the…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 1/25/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

William Ryan is a solution architect who has served as a subject matter expert for several Microsoft exams, including Microsoft SQL Serverï¿½ and Windows Azure. He is a coauthor of the MCTS 70-536 Training Kit and the MCTS 70-529 Training Kit.

Walter Pitman has been a federal MP and an Ontario MLA, president of Ryerson University, and director of the Ontario Arts Council. He is a Member of the Order of Ontario; an Officer of the Order of Canada; and the author of Elmer Iseler, Music Makers , and Louis Applebaum . Currently, he lives in Toronto.



List of Maps


Note to the Reader


Prologue: Witnesses



The Discovery of the Flood Story



Deciphering the Legend



Conversions



Visions of Palaces



The Face of the Deep



Ur of the Chaldees



The Discovery of a Real Flood



Hidden River



Gibraltar's Waterfall



Vanished Deserts



Pontus Axenus



Red Hill



Aquanauts



Immigrants



Close Encounter



Beachcombers



Back of the Envelope



Who Was There, and Where Did They Go?



Anybody There?



The Diaspora



Family Trees



The Guslar's Song



The Flood Stories Told



On a Golden Pond



Other Myths


Epilogue: A Telling of Atrahasis


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index