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Around 5.4 million years back, 2 rivers streamed throughout contemporary Turkey and Syria and into the Mediterranean Sea– and ultimately, they would combine to form the Euphrates River, brand-new research study recommends. The merged river would play an essential function in the advancement of early human civilizations in the Fertile Crescent.
Researchers exposed that the Paleo-Karasu and Paleo-Murat rivers released into the Mediterranean Sea till around 3.6 million years back, when tectonic shifts changed their courses. The Paleo-Murat River altered course initially, and the Paleo-Karasu River was rerouted 800,000 years later on. Both waterways integrated to stream southeast into the Persian Gulf by approximately 1.6 million years back, according to the brand-new research study.
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