Well....considering that you can make a place into a "sea of green glass" isn't a bad idea.

Maybe that is the solution for Jerusalem...as in any other ancient town, it should disappear into the ruins of ancient myths and legends...

"................Ancient Asteroid will be shown Sept. 21, 8-9 p.m., on the National

Geographic Channel (channel 52 on Comcast cable in

Albuquerque). National Geographic’s website describes the program

this way: “Ancient Asteroid traces the amazing story of how a

quest to uncover the origins of a strange yellow-green glass used

in one of Tutankhamun's necklaces leads to the discovery of a historic

cosmic event in the Egyptian desert. What happened there

30 million years ago could happen again and threatens us all..............”

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"...............Truthfully, the origin of the Libyan desert glass is still somewhat of a mystery. Scientists are still studying the unusual chemical and physical properties of this jewel-like yellow-green glass and still debate its origin. Primarily, the debate is over what sort of meteorite and what kind of impact, soft or hard, may have caused the formation of the glass. Some scientific theories, such as a volcanic origin for the glass, have been largely rejected by scientists. The 9000-year-old volcanoes found in the region near the Libyan desert glass are far to young to have produced the 28 million year old glass deposit.

I realize that most people are likely to be inclined toward a more scientific explanation for the formation of the Libyan desert glass than the alien atomic warfare explanation proposed by Childress and others. I am hopeful, at least, that most people who browse these pseudoscientific articles and websites find them amusing, as I did one day when I stumbled across them as I was searching for some scientific articles on tektites. ......"

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And....

".....On the basis of the above evidence it is logical to conclude that by Aterian times, Libyan Desert glass was used for the manufacture of lithic tools. But there is still an enigma: although Libyan Desert glass has been dated as 28.5 million years old, there is no evidence that man used it before Aterian times even though much older Nubian Sandstone handaxes have been found.

One plausible solution to this problem, offered by Virgil Barnes, is that the area that is now the Sand Sea may have been covered by thick deposits of sand prior to the climatic perturbation of the late Pleistocene age that could have whipped the sand up into saif dunes, thus exposing the Libyan Desert glass below....."

John W. Olsen is a Ph.D. candidate in Old World prehistory at the University of California and James R. Underwood heads the Department of Geology at Kansas State University.

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