The entire Nearth Sea wasn't one big salty marshland. It had fresh water enough for trees. However there weren't likely to be many, and it wouldn't most likely haev been a grass plain.
That's not what I mean, you say climb in trees in sea, that means the trees are half underwater, alteast that's what I made of it.

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But what you heard would have been the great eruption that most likely mortally wounded the great Minoan civilization, and could be the background for the Atlantean myth. However, neither Egypt nor Israel suffered much from this.
In that case it's another one, it has been on Discovery (or NGC) I think, atleast in Holland, was something called Bible Week, in which they explained all sorts of myths from the bible.