Lost Worlds, 4 : Rise and Fall of Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf is just the flooded part of Tigris, Euphrates rivers valley. During the last glacial period, it was a flood plain like the modern Iraqi one. REFERENCES : Hallast, P., Agdzhoyan, A., Balanovsky, O. et al. A Southeast Asian origin for presentday nonAfrican human Y chromosomes. Hum Genet (2020). Grant, K., Rohling, E., Ramsey, C. et al. Sealevel variability over five glacial cycles. Nat Commun 5, 5076 (2014). Soundtrack : Rise of The Planet of the Apes Buck is Released Globus Spiritus Khayyam