So how did this salty basin become the Mediterranean Sea once again? Well the situation reversed in exactly the same way that it was caused. The African and Eurasian tectonic plates continued to move.

A dramatic and cataclysmic event occurred over 5 million years ago, when water from the Atlantic Ocean surged through the ...

It's probably the largest flood in our planet's history.

Imagine the Mediterranean Sea dried up. Then imagine the Atlantic refilling it in less than two years. That seems to be what happened 5 million years ago.

According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down a kilometre-high slope towards the empty Mediterranean Sea, excavating ... dry and salty basin, but so much water ...