Re: Black Sea

> Some have seen a consistent error in Plato's account. He is

clearly

> describing a Bronze Age culture beyond the Pillars of Hercules.

And

> yet he sets it 9,000 years earlier. It has been suggested that

this

> results from an Egyptian scribal error - the hieroglyphics for 900
> could be read for 9,000. Furthermore, it has been suggested that

the

> ancient name for Crete (Keftiu) actually means "Pillar". Biblical
> tradition mentions that the Philistines massed in Crete before

coming

> as Peoples of the Sea to invade Egypt.

This reference to the pillars of Hercule/Herakles remembers me that
the Pillars are described as a zone of falling and roaring water,
which sticks well to the hypothesis of the outpouring of the
Mediterranean Sea into the Black sea through the Bosphorus channel,
because if we accept the idea of such an event, this means that the
event itself has been tumultuous and noisy enough to be remembered by
people living on its sides at the time. So the pillars of Hercule
would have been the Bosphorus, with the consequence that the Bronze
Age culture leaving behind were people living on the coast of the
Black Sea.