The twin mounds of Konar Sandal are in SE Iran – abutting on Baluchistan in what is now part of Pakistan. At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/new-discoveries-in-iran-reveal-an-ancient-civilization-that-may-have-predated-mesopotamia/ … Konar Sandal is in Kerman Province and is widely referred to as Jiroft in archaeological literature. It is situated just outside the modern town of Jiroft and has been under investigation for at least 20 years. Probably longer. The link concentrates on the treasures unearthed – such as vessels made from dark green chlorite, inlaid with shell and hard stone. They depict creatures that are half human and half animal. Some of the vessels show terraced temples, reminiscent of Sumerian ziggurats [ in southern Iraq]. They are often topped by horn like appendages – symbolic in some kind of way. Similar horns on temples are known from Sumeria so the builders were recording a common phenomena to both regions. This is reminiscent of cometary symbolism elsewhere in the world. Horns play a major role in depictions of deity in many other parts of the world. Horned dragons for example, while the bull and its horns was much more common – sometimes in the company of eagles [placing deity in the sky]. Bulls and eagles, or great birds, play a role at Konar Sandal, and in Sumeria – as well as the ancient Mediterranean, and beyond. In Africa, for example. Then we have the Sumerian goddess Etana. She flew up to heaven on the back of an eagle. This idea, in turn, survived into the era of Mohammed, who travelled from Mecca to Jerusalem on a heavenly horse, at night [another comet deity]. The same horse is preserved in Biblical scripture – Barak, or Borak.
At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/a-stone-road-was-discovered-underwater/ … here we have a stone road of the Hvar neolithic culture found submerged off the coast of Croatia – dating back between 5000 and 4000BC. It was more of a causeway than a road and connected an island to the mainland. It seems, back then, during what is known as the Mid Holocene warm period, sea levels in the Mediterranean were lower than in the modern world, which is considerably cooler. This appears, on the face of it, to contradict mainstream ideas on sea level rise as the paradigm that dominates the subject is that melting ice from glaciers, near the poles and on mountains, is the cause of historical sea level rise – whenever it happens in the Holocene. As the Mid Holocene Warm period was much warmer why was not the sea level higher than today? One to gnaw at.
It also raises the possibility that sea levels were lower elsewhere in the Mediterranean. That makes sense.