empire CCNet ESSAY: IMPACT AND THE END OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WEST ————————————————————— By E.P. Grondine BARBARIANS, VOLCANO, PLAGUE, BARBARIANS, RESPITE; COMETS, FAMINES, PLAGUES, BARBARIANS, A SHORTER RESPITE; EARTHQUAKE, IMPACT, FATAL INFLUENZA, BARBARIANS…

I was not surprised to see the paper below this week in Science. I have read all of Mike Baillie’s books, as well as ‘Catastrophe’ by David Keys, leaving me feeling as though I had actually lived through the 6th Century. The inescapable conclusion of the popular books and the hard science is that something quite horrid happened during this period.  Dr. Baillie, one the…

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Here is an interesting little article I found wandering about the net. Please note ALL the text below is reposted from Darrien Naish — and not original. My “Block Quotes” still are not working so it is hard to distinguish off-site material from my own. Here is Darrien’s original blog: http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2011/01/ancient_egyptian_pygmy_mammoth.php As the…

Atlantis (in Greek, Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, “island of Atlas“) is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato‘s dialogues Timaeus and Critias. In Plato’s account, Atlantis was a naval power lying “in front of the Pillars of Hercules” that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9,000 years before the time of Solon…

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Unbelievable.  Out of nowhere de-facto capitulation.  Phil Claeys, a co-author of the new paper Scribd below, is a persistent and rather snarky critic of the Younger Dryas Boundary theory, see here: Supposed chemical evidence has withered under scrutiny, says impact geochemist Philippe Claeys of the Free University of Brussels. Claeys and colleagues probed YDB samples—both his own from…