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Is Noah's Ark under the Black Sea?
AFP
Varna, Bulgaria, August 12 - A joint US-Bulgarian venture hopes to unearth
the remains of a lost civilisation, which could clarify the timing and site
of the legendary biblical flood.
The Akademik, which will set sail on August 15, will use sonar technology
to comb for traces of the Provadiyaska and Kamtchia river mouths in the
Black Sea. Numerous towns are believed to have been situated along the two
rivers.
The supposed ante-diluvian society, predating those of Egypt and
Mesopotamia, is believed to have been submerged by the Black Sea at the
time of a massive flood 7,600 years ago. The flood transformed a stillwater
lake into the saltwater sea.
US geologist Robert Ballard, famous for having discovered the remains of
the sunken Titanic in 1985, is directing the expedition. He supports the
belief that the great biblical flood occurred in the Black Sea.
Exactly what might surface? "We don't think that Noah's Ark could be
found," Ballard said, even if this particular flood could have propagated
the myth of the biblical one.
Inundation occurred all over the world 7,600 years ago, but "this was the
flood of the floods," Ballard emphasised.
His Bulgarian counterpart, geology professor Petko Dimitrov, agrees.
"Organic sediment which develops in times of ecological catastrophe has
been found. It dates back 7,000-8,000 years, and this is the time of the
Flood attributed by the Bible."
However, rivalling theories exist. Deltcho Solakov, a researcher at the
Bulgarian Oceanography Institute, has pointed out that the Bible cites
Mount Ararat, located south of the Black Sea in the Caucasus region, as the
site of Noah's sunken ark.
In further defence of this theory, Ballard claimed that when glaciers
melted at the end of the Ice Age, water flowing from the Mediterranean
surged over the Bosphorous at a speed 200 times greater than that of
Niagara Falls, precisely because of the difference in the water levels of
the former lake and the Mediterranean.
"The best place to find perfect ships is the Black Sea," said Ballard,
citing its depth of 2,000 metres.In 1972, a neolithic necropolis containing
"the oldest tomb discovered in Europe to this day" was discovered near
Varna, proof according to Dimitrov that this lost civilisation exists.
The necropolis on display at an archaeological museum in Varna dates back
to 4600-4200 BC It contains 294 tombs and about 3,000 gold objects, 200
copper objects, various tools made of flint and stone and numerous
religious and funerary objects. The most decorated tomb belonged to a
middle-aged man, either a priest or tribal chief, who was surrounded by 900
gilded objects.
A Bulgarian-Russian expedition also unearthed a round vessel from the Black
Sea in 1985. Made of clay and sand, its inscription has still not been
deciphered, but it's been nicknamed "Noah's bowl" by archaeologists.
Much remains to be explored, according to Ballard. "We have better maps of
Mars than of the Black Sea," he said.
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