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THE 2300 BC EVENT - A TAPESTRY OF DESTRUCTION

by Moe Mandelkehr

This book presents a story of a devastation that the Earth experienced
at about 2300 BC.  If one was inclined to issue dramatic statements,
it could be said that the event was the most significant in all of
man's history -- and that the course of history might have been
changed.  All advanced civilizations at that time were terminated, and
did not recover for hundreds of years.

The advanced cultures were located in Anatolia (Turkey), Greece,
Egypt, the Middle East, India and Central Asia.  Two geophysical
events happened at 2300 BC - 1) most settlements were violently
destroyed by earthquake; and 2) the climate became abruptly dry in
these regions, inhibiting agricultural activity that was essential for
survival.  Journal papers have been written on the event and symposia
have been held - without answers.

Analogous conditions occurred for all regions of less sophisticated
cultures - Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Arctic, the Far
East and the Pacific Ocean.  Strong climatic and geological transients
at this time were noted in all regions.  Previous cultures disappeared
at this point, and new cultures appeared.  Sites over wide areas were
destroyed or abandoned.

The causal event for the earthquake destruction and climatic changes
was the encounter of the Earth with a dense clustering of space
debris, the early Southern/Northern Taurid meteoroid stream.  There is
general acceptance in the astronomical community ot the likelihood of
a giant comet entering the Solar System within the past ten to twenty
thousand years.  The comet very likely fragmented, and one of the
pieces was the progenitor of the major meteoroid stream existing at
2300 BC.

The important effect of this stream was to inject dust over the Arctic
region, and trigger it into a stable ice-covered configuration which
severely changed climatic conditions over the globe.  Glacial growth
and corresponding load changes over both land and ocean areas resulted
in crustal stresses, surface movements and the destructive
earthquakes.

The immediate experienced effect of the encounter was an intense fall
of meteoroids, some of them sufficiently large to cause surface
damage.  Simultaneously with the meteoroid fall was a downpouring of
water from ice particles in the stream, causing flash flooding.  As
expected, there was loss of life.  An astonishing aspect of the event
was the formation of a ring surrounding the Earth, reflecting sunlight
during the day, hiding some stars at night, and moving around the sky
through a 24-hour period, as the earth rotated beneath it.  The
experience was commemorated even up to the present time in terms of
fire and the remembrance of the dead.

New religions in response to the event appeared at 2300 BC in all
regions.  The mythologies embedded in the religions have survived for
four thousand years, and form the preponderance of the mythologies
that we know today.  The religions and associated mythologies
described the experienced event - strangely, even though the texts
describe the bombardment and flooding, the dominant aspect was the
observance of the ring surrounding the Earth.

The evidence for the event exists in a tapestry of interwoven
information, comprising patterns in the fields of archaeology,
geophysics, astrophysics, and the study of ancient traditions and
early mythology.