Most Curious of Seas
Richard Fortey: Noah’s Flood, 1 July 1999
Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event that Changed History
by William Ryan and Walter Pitman.
Simon and Schuster, 319 pp., £17.99, February 1999,0 684 81052 2 Show More
by William Ryan and Walter Pitman.
Simon and Schuster, 319 pp., £17.99, February 1999,
“... tradition before it was ever inscribed in clay. Even today, guslars still sing it. This, Ryan and Pitman tell us, was the true Flood, the historical event that we know as the Noachian Deluge. The Flood was the result of an inundation of a huge freshwater lake which became, in a matter of weeks, the Black Sea. It is black because below the top few metres it is ... ”
