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Hidden Mysteries Deep Ago
October 5, 2019 by sd

Every now and then through history — deep history; sometimes not so deep — a series of unusual, even inexplicable, events have occurred. Perhaps the word is “trends.” There were times when abnormal temperatures suddenly besieged parts of the planet, and there was mass migration. Populations in places such as Anatolia (now Turkey) or the Middle East suddenly reconfigured, with dozens of towns vanishing. Around these evacuations have been indications of seismicity: great earthquakes. In South America, Indians suddenly have fled from the coast, as if haunted by disease or tsunamis. Across Europe, astonishing evidence indicates periods of tremendous rainfall and concomitant flooding. If you look back to periods such as 2500 B.C. (or thereabouts), and then 1500 B.C., and five centuries after that, you’ll see the mysterious decline or even abrupt end of certain regional populations — whole cultures, along with parallel swerves in planetary climate. We’re talking major swerves, not just flux. One example is a very strange series of events that seems to have occurred around 1000 B.C. In one period, a vast section of the Hungarian Plain went under water. Elsewhere was epic weather. Were there tidal waves? “From many other sources of information it is obvious that these events were sudden and occurred worldwide,” wrote two Swedish researchers, Lars Franzén and Thomas B. Larsson, who found deposits indicating an unrecognized flooding catastrophe.

Science can theorize. It can ignore it. It can try to dismiss it. But it can’t explain it…

In Turkey, Lake Van once rose 260 feet, while rivers in eastern Europe turned ferocious, topping their banks. Societies met their end in Egypt, Israel, and Greece. There were quakes. “During these generations the changes that came about are little short of fantastic,” wrote V. R. Desborough, another scholar. “The craftsmen and artists seem to have vanished almost without trace: there is little new stone construction of any sort, far less any massive edifices; the metal workers’ techniques revert to primitive, and the potter, except in the early stages, loses his purpose and inspiration; the art of writing is forgotten.”

Again: why? How?

By the end of the twelfth century A.D., during another such episode, the population in major parts of the Mediterranean appears to have dwindled to one-tenth of what it had been little over a century before. “This is no normal decline,” Desborough noted. “And the circumstances and events obviously have a considerable bearing on the nature of the subsequent Dark Ages, and must be in part at least a cause of its existence.”

Yet, historians are clueless – or nearly.

During the 1,000 B.C. events, Franzén and Larsson found something that enthralled them. The periodicity seemed to be about 550 years, and during those episodes, said the two Swedish scientists, they found, through soil analyses, “small glassy spherules with a very varying compositions,” including iron. And the spherules occurred in conjunction with dramatic climate swerves, including freakish ground frost in Tunisia.

Their conclusion was unnerving: that the spherules — melted rock — had been formed by “relatively large asteroids or comets that hit somewhere in the eastern Atlantic, possibly at the shelf of the Atlantic west coast of Africa and Europe, around 1500 B.C. and 1000 B.C.”

The comets, they said, affected southeastern and central Europe, the British Isles, northern Africa, and the Near and Middle East.

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