Significant Find by the Israel Antiquities Authority

[Brian37]

Took a few moments to find this.



Egypt is in the 0.1 cm ring for the ash fall ring.

Egypt was already in the Second Intermediate period so one can't tell much from political instability. They may have suffered economic loss because a number of their commercial partners were utterly wrecked. I don't know if that is the stuff of legends, though.

Um look at the geography and the close proximity. Egypt is not on the other side of the planet. Anyone witnessing the actual events close up who survived could have carried quite easily their gullible view of nature and not only conflated it to comic book proportions, but spread their "witnessing" around them later that got filtered throughout the region and multiple cultures over long periods of time.

There is not one religion or holy book that is not based on legends and myths. Our current and falsely believed gods and religions are ALWAYS based on prior claims and legends because of our own human ignorance and gap filling.

You are not always going to have a record of the story passing through time anymore than one can name every single person they have met in a lifetime. What is important in all this is that humans spread their legends and they get incorporated into other cultures and spread down through time to become newer or even completely different myths and legends.

Humans make up gods and especially back then, a natural disaster to ignorant people, be they polytheists or monotheists, are going to see those events as super natural, not merely nature.