and a lot of real estate, 150,000 square kilometers of land went under. and 400 feet below the surface, ballard believes he s found proof of that catastrophic event. and i love it. i love it. i love it, i love it. i love it. they unearthed an ancient shoreline. we have actually dated it about 5,000 b.c. and that is about the time that the bible says noah and the great flood happened. exactly. i mean, wow. so it nailed it. ballard and other who is agree with the so-called black sea theory believe the survivors of this traumatic event passed the story down from generation to generation and eventually inspired the biblical account. here s the problem, when people read the story, they say, well did it cover the whole planet in water? no, but it covered their world. so that explains the stories that were handed down.
big flood and people were living there. reporter: the theory goes, this was once an isolated freshwater lake, but then when the mediterranean swelled at some magic moment, it broke through and flooded this place violently. reporter: what did noah, or the people who lived there, during what you believe to be this huge flood kwhashgs did they see? it probably was a bad day, and a lot of real estate, 150,000 square kilometers of land went under. reporter: and 400 feet below the surface, ballard believes he s found proof of that catastrophic event. and i love it. i love it. i love it. i love it. i love it. reporter: they unearthed and ancient shoreline. we dated it about 5,000 b.c. about the time the bible says noah and the great flood happened. i mean, wow. wow. so it nailed it.
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and if egypt goes, if egypt is unstable, does anybody in the region win? many would say maybe iran is not unhappy. to see egypt in turmoil and a key. i would suspect that it would take a lot to turn egypt into real chaos and crisis. egypt is the oldest state in the arab world. it is one of the oldest states in the world. egypt is one of the few states in the world, egypt, iran, that have continuous borders from 5,000 bc. an old state. this is the pharoah s state. even if you have change, don t be surprised a year or two later the same bureaucrats are running a lot of what s going on in egypt. i don t think you will have the kind of chaos that people fear. it may have a different government, it may have populist tendencies, it may have islamist