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This is more appropriate i think
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Not necessarily. The Colorado River essentially evaporates into nothing in the desert SW of North America.
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Sure, but the colorado river meanders through 4 states before it trickles out near baja. The Mediterranean basin had no such outlet. Even such valleys in the desert fill up if you dam them - lake powell, lake mead.
Even today there is a net inflow of water from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean. Evaporation exceeds the rate at which rivers fill the basin.
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yes - that was stated above
Must have missed it bouncing around the replies. Roger that!
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? The Nile meanders through 6 countries, also in a desert. When the Colorado flooded through an irrigation canal into the California desert, it formed the Salton Sea - which (in geologic time) promptly evaporated.
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You’re right It is Torcs not Torques
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It was Aikin Drum the Nonborn King who was accepted by the Golden Torc and IIRC his wrath that brought down the land bridge.
yes, and still discharges through a huge delta into the mediterranean - much more flow than the colorado.
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So the story of Noah is probably based on some kinda truth?
Well, yes. But it’s far more likely to be originally about the Mesopotamian floods, when the flood plain is covered in water and you might think the whole world all the way to the horizon is drowned.
Given the prevalence of major flood stories throughout the region, and some geologic evidence, it seems probable that such a flood happened. Exactly when and where remain uncertain. There may a,so have been more than one.
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