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by mcguire 1732 days ago
One would have thought it would leave a written tradition---"The year a city in the Levant got blowed up" in one of the year lists or something.

Tunguska was apparently visible for 500 miles (800km); for a similar event north of the Dead Sea, that would be nearly to the Euphrates valley, central Anatolia, and most of the Nile Valley.