Friday 25/July/2025 – 07:37 PM
In this article, we accompany you on a journey that extends millions of years, in which we reveal the other side of the Mediterranean, which dried up to death one day, and then returned to life with a horrific flood. Today, between the escalation of the Earth and the high level of the sea, fears of a coming drowning that threatens cities and coasts.
Are we facing a repetition of a previous geological tragedy?
How can the sea we go to escape … it is the same one who may expel us one day from the beach!
Between a fugitive from the hustle and bustle of cities, or a lover who writes his love messages on the pages of the waves, or an immigrant that is tightened by the narrow life, then he contemplates the horizon with a desperate hope, the faces that come to the shores of the Mediterranean are diversified, as if they all deal with the sea as a affectionate friend, a guardian of secrets, who does not fail to throw his soul before his body.
But under this water calm, the scholars read another story completely: a sea that knew death, and suffocated until his soul dried up, before he resurrected again by a geological catastrophe and then an amazing water renaissance. And still, despite its dual phenomenon, is still carrying a history of silent violence.
Five million years ago, the medium white was a vibrant sea, drawing its water from the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar. But a geological earthquake closed the strait, and his connection was cut off in the ocean, and it became a besieged sea, without an outlet, and there is no life to reach it.
Under the incendiary sun and Earth’s heat, the sea began to gradually evaporate, its level decreased by more than 1500 meters, and turned into a bottom. On this bottom, layers of gypsum and salt were deposited in some of its regions, more than 3 kilometers. The scientists called this disaster the name of the Mississinist salinity, and lasted for more than 600 thousand years, as if the sea disappeared in a long coma.
Then came the moment when nature released the cry of life again. The land moved, and the Strait of Gibraltar opened again, and the Atlantic waters rushed as a giant waterfall in a scene that is considered one of the most dramatic phenomena in geological history, in what is known as the adulterous flood. In a relatively short time, the sea was filled again, regained its geographical shape, and returned life to its waters.
But what was past is not just a history buried at the bottom, but rather a warning of a future that may restore the scenario, but in a different way. Today, the planet’s temperatures are increasing at an accelerated pace, polar ice melts, and water is stretched, while the levels of the Mediterranean Sea are worried about a disturbing general rise.
The maps of the scientists are colorful with warnings, and estimates indicate that the sea water crawls dozens of meters inward before the end of the current century, threatening cities such as Alexandria, Venice, Benghazi, and even a large part of the Nile Delta.
Future Question: Who is Sinju?
The sea, which one day shy and disappeared, may overflow tomorrow with all its tyranny. The stability of the sea is a human illusion, but it is, in his heart a record of coups and changes. If we look today on the horizon above its quiet water, we must remember that under these waves there is a history of death, and above it is a future that is still in the form of formation, an open question on the possibility of the storm: Who will witness it? And when? How will we prepare?
