Researchers find data for earthquake 3,700 years ago
Israeli and US archaeologists mention they have found evidence of an earthquake that occurred about 3,700 years back.
It is one of the earliest earthquakes recorded in an archeological blog, said the University of Haifa (UH) on Sunday.
In the study published in PLOS One, researchers from UH and George Washington University in Washington DC examined an ancient Canaanite palace they uncovered in recent years.
The findings at the palace, located in northern Israel, included magnificent halls, wine cellars, dozens of jugs and proof glorious feasts and enormous meat consumption.
Likewise, murals in the palace testified to trade and cultural ties with the Mediterranean islands.
However, the palace, positioned over a geological rift, was out of the blue destroyed and abandoned, and the brand new research found that the reason was a strong earthquake which split the palace in halves.
Researchers say the major damage caused the citizens of ancient Kabri to reduce faith in the ruling dynasty, as a result they abandoned the city, and it has not been settled since.
They found that elements of the palace's walls and the ground fell right into a gaping ditch in the ground, next to ruined jugs in your wine cellar and data that wine was spilled in to the sewer.
Along with the insufficient evidence of an strike such as arrows, shed marks and remains of unburied bodies, the team concluded that it had been an earthquake that ruined the area.
The experts also found mud bricks and animal bones in the ditch, strengthening their summary even more.
Source: www.theindependentbd.com
