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28 January 2007 06:45

Impact Crater in Mesopotamia

"Perusal of an article about Saddam Hussein's canal-building projects has led a scientist to a startling discovery about the mysterious collapse of Middle East civilisations more than 4,000 years ago. Sharad Master, a geologist at the University of Witwa

Atlas: Umm al Binni lake, a possible Holocene impact structure in the marshes of southern Iraq: Geological evidence for its age, and implications for Bronze-age Mesopotamia. by Sharad Master

A near circular, vaguely polygonal, ~3.4 km-diameter postulated impact structure [1] in the Al ‘Amarah marshes (at 47°4’44.4” E, 31°8’58.2” N), in southern Iraq, has now been identified on a map [2] as the Umm al Binni lake. After the partial

28 January 2007 06:30

Did a Meteor End the Bronze Age?

The crater's faint outline was found by Dr Sharad Master, a geologist at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, on satellite images of the Al 'Amarah region, about 10 miles north-west of the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates and home of the M

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/04/wmet04.xml&site=5&page=0

SCIENTISTS have found the first evidence that a devastating meteor impact in the Middle East might have triggered the mysterious collapse of civilisations more than 4,000 years ago. satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide impact c

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