2300 BCE Meteor Impact in Mesopotamia.

From: markodegard@...
Message: 10982
Date: 2001-11-04

We seem to have another 'smoking gun' of an ancient catastrophe. This
one is an apparently meteoric impact from ca. 2300 BCE, one that is
spectacularly located: near the confluence of the Tigris and
Euphrates.

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/04/wme
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