Saturday, October 11, 2008

An Alpine Pompeii from the Stone Age

By Matthias Schulz

What happened to the prehistoric village on Lake Mondsee in the Austrian Alps? One geologist has found evidence that a vast rock slide may have set off a tsunami that buried the lakeside settlement. He's hoping to find funding -- and mummies.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,583452,00.html

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