How the Disaster Created the Black Sea
The Black Sea wasn't always a sea. Once upon a time, there was a vast freshwater lake on its shores, where people lived, built houses, grew grain, and buried their ancestors. Then the waters began to rise, and an entire world slowly sank beneath the surface. But was it a sudden, catastrophic flood or a long, inexorable rise over generations?
In this video, we explore how the Black Sea formed, what geologists and underwater archaeologists have discovered, the essence of Ryan and Pitman's hypothesis, why scientists still debate the scale of the flood, and whether these events could have formed the basis of ancient myths about a global flood. We'll discuss the Bosphorus, submerged settlements, freshwater mollusks at depths of tens of meters, and why this history is important not only for understanding the past but also for understanding climate change today.
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