The Flood in the Black Sea - Science and Mythology
| Type | Proceedings paper | ||||||||
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| Date | 2006-08-28 | ||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||
| Author(s) | Dimitrov P, Ryan W, Ballard R, Haarmann H, Dimitrov D, Solakov D, Slavova K, Peev P, Peychev V, Petrov P, Lericolais Gilles |
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| Meeting | IGCP 521 2nd plenary meeting and field trip , 20-28 August 2006, Odessa, Ukraine | ||||||||
| Source | IGCP 521 2nd plenary meeting and field trip , 20-28 August 2006, Odessa, Ukraine | ||||||||
| Abstract | The most recent geological history of the Black Sea, which covers the last 25 thousand years, is a subject of special attention today. This interest is due mainly to the hypothesis we have launched about the early Holocene flood in the Black Sea. This hypothesis was a real shock to the scientific community, among whom the Bulgarian geologists and archaeologists received it with great hostility. The anathematization was accompanied by a fierce media campaign, as a result of which Prof. Robert Ballard, the discoverer of Titanic, left Bulgaria disappointed. | ||||||||
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