In Popular Culture
- c. 10,000 BC: This is the time setting for the film 10,000 BC.
- c. 10,000 BC: Is also the setting for the Opar novels by Philip José Farmer – Hadon of Ancient Opar and Flight to Opar.
- 9564 BC: Destruction of Atlantis, according to theosophic tradition.
- C. 9500-9000 BC; In Bryan Sykes' The Seven Daughters of Eve, the 'clan mother' of Haplogroup J lives in Asia Minor or the Fertile Crescent.
- In the famous Halo series, the Halo rings were said to go off in this year, on December 14'
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