Mysterious Stone Structure Discovered Beneath Sea of Galilee

https://www.google.be/?gws_rd=ssl#safe=off&q=newly+found+undersea+monolith

So Lovecraft was right?

I wonder if the scientists will name it "R'lyeh"...

Wow... I guess Jesus really did know where the rocks were.

"The moon is fat tonight... Dagon stirs... maybe he'll rise..."

and just in time for FFG's End of the World II: Wrath of the gods RPG!

I've often thought about this:

Once upon a time, the Mediterranean sea was a valley. Someone could walk to Europe from Africa without getting their feet wet. And then the Rock of Gibraltar and Jebel Moussa became 2 entities. I wonder if it happened suddenly, in one day- a literal geologic dam* breaking.

Can you imagine if- overnight- a giant valley became a large inland sea? I think there's a _very_ good reason the cultures from that region all have myths about a giant, world destroying flood.

*I also wonder if FFG's internal censor will decide that this is just me misspelling a naughty word.

I've often thought about this:

Once upon a time, the Mediterranean sea was a valley. Someone could walk to Europe from Africa without getting their feet wet. And then the Rock of Gibraltar and Jebel Moussa became 2 entities. I wonder if it happened suddenly, in one day- a literal geologic dam* breaking.

Can you imagine if- overnight- a giant valley became a large inland sea? I think there's a _very_ good reason the cultures from that region all have myths about a giant, world destroying flood.

*I also wonder if FFG's internal censor will decide that this is just me misspelling a naughty word.

It won't happen overnight though, it would takes years and years to fill up the Meditteranean. If the dykes around my home town (6 meters below sea level) would break it would take hours before the water is a couple of meters up, let alone something the size of a sea.

The giant flood is more probably linked to the Santorini eruption and other such events.

It won't happen overnight though, it would takes years and years to fill up the Meditteranean. If the dykes around my home town (6 meters below sea level) would break it would take hours before the water is a couple of meters up, let alone something the size of a sea.

Not sure about that. It depends what caused the event.

Imagine if you will a mountain range stretching from Europe to Africa creating a natural sea wall. Now imagine a tectonic shift causing a breach of total collapse in that sea wall, causing a mega tsumani scale event in the Atlantic as the waters rush into the lowers lands beyond. You'd be talking an event which would make the 2004 Asian tsunami look like your example of a leaky dyke. Essentially this x 1000:

It's no coincidence that the Eurasian and African tectonic plates meet in the middle of what is now the Mediterranean Sea, and extend quite a distance into the middle of the Atlantic as well:

It won't happen overnight though, it would takes years and years to fill up the Meditteranean. If the dykes around my home town (6 meters below sea level) would break it would take hours before the water is a couple of meters up, let alone something the size of a sea.

Not sure about that. It depends what caused the event.

Imagine if you will a mountain range stretching from Europe to Africa creating a natural sea wall. Now imagine a tectonic shift causing a breach of total collapse in that sea wall, causing a mega tsumani scale event in the Atlantic as the waters rush into the lowers lands beyond. You'd be talking an event which would make the 2004 Asian tsunami look like your example of a leaky dyke. Essentially this x 1000:

Current theories aren't as dramatic as that (and place the filling of the Mediterranean several million years before humanity ). The leading theory is that it took months up to two years.

What you describe is kind of what happened with the coast of Norway couple of thousand years ago. And what will possibly happen in the next couple of thousand with Cumbra Vieja. .

Current theories aren't as dramatic as that (and place the filling of the Mediterranean several million years before humanity ). The leading theory is that it took months up to two years.

What you describe is kind of what happened with the coast of Norway couple of thousand years ago. And what will possibly happen in the next couple of thousand with Cumbra Vieja. .

Oh, I don't know - water travelling at three hundred kilometres an hour and levels rising at a rate of 10 metres per day seems pretty dramatic to me

http://phys.org/news/2009-12-mediterranean-sea-years.html

All this may well have happened before the advent of humanity, but all these "historical great flood" myths prevalent in ancient Mediterranean civilisations must have their roots somewhere.

Maybe the Ancient Star-Gods and Deep Ones left certain relics that the hairless apes which followed them eventually discovered...

I had thought the Mediterranean had flooded about 100,000 years ago- roughly when Humanity had reached that part of the world.

This is one of those situations where even being right (about how dramatic the flood was) still leaves me being wrong- the timing is way off.

Oh well.