Evidence of the Horror of Volcanoes 2000 Years Ago, Ancient Egyptians Forced to Flee Page all

KOMPAS.com – History records several eruptions volcano has eliminated or forced a civilization to move to a new place.

Like one thing that happens to people Ancient Egypt this.

About 2000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians were forced to leave one of the coastal cities where they lived.

Citing New Scientist, Friday (19/3/2021) the findings have been published in the journal Antiquity This is the result of a study of the excavations carried out in the town of Berenike on the coast Red Sea.

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Berenike was founded between 275 and 260 BC but between 220 and 200 BC the city was abandoned before finally being populated.

Since 2014, Marek Wozniak of the Institute for Mediterranean and Oriental Culture in Warsaw, Poland has excavated the remains of gates and towers on the city’s fortress walls.

He found a well buried on the floor of the building but it still stores water today.

After the analysis, Wozniak said that the well dried up between 220 and 200 BC. In the well, he also found two bronze coins dating from the decades before 199 BC.

This evidence led Wozniak to conclude that the city of Berenike had been abandoned when clean water supplies dried up.

But what makes cities lose clean water?

According to him, a volcanic eruptions large, possibly originating from another part of the world that has triggered a severe drought.

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The 2017 study seems to support Wozniak’s thinking. The study led by Jennifer Marlon of Yale University found that in 209 BC, a volcanic eruption released large amounts of sulfate aerosols into the Earth’s atmosphere.

This left the Egyptian region with a shortage of rain, explaining the drought of the well which may have prompted residents to leave the city.

But it’s not clear which volcano is responsible for the drought that hit ancient Egypt.

Wozniak himself revealed that there are four possibilities, namely Popocatéptl in Mexico, Pelée on the island of Martinique in the Lesser Antilles and Tsurumi or Hakusan, both of which are in Japan.

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