Do the world's Flood legends give testimony to a cataclysmic disaster at the end of the last Ice Age some 12,000 years ago? This analysis of the arguments of Graham Hancock may provide some answers.
Minor correction: In the video, I say that Critias says that he got the story from his ancestor Solon, but I should have said that Critias says he got the story from his ancestor Dropidas, who was a friend of Solon.
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English translation of Plato's Timaeus: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus...
Papers on Meltwater Pulse 1A:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
Papers on Meltwater Pulse 1B:
https://www.collegedefrance.fr/medi...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
On Deucalion:
https://www.theoi.com/Heros/Deukalion...
On the Maya art depicting a Great Flood:
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/di...
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