Uncharted Territories

Hi! At the beginning of the year, y’all told me some things you’d like to see in Uncharted Territories. At the top of the list was seeing Uncharted Territories articles as YouTube videos, so I’m taking a stab at it! Here’s the first one.

I’m just starting, so please let me know everything that works or doesn’t. I’m here to improve! Alright, let’s go to this week’s article, it’s on a fascinating topic!

The Mediterranean Sea didn't exist 6M years ago. It had dried up into a series of salty lakes. Then a megaflood filled it in a matter of months, killing everything in its path.

Why did the Mediterranean dry up? How do we know? What happened then? Why did it fill up so brutally fast? What would it have been like to be there? This is what we’re going to answer today 1 !

Over time, it evolved into the Indian Ocean and seas like the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, which appeared only a few tens of millions of years ago. Since then, the African and European tectonic plates have been colliding, forming the mountains of southern Europe over millions of years.

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