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He detailed to Daily Star Online exclusively: "Plato's words say it went under about 11,600 years ago, which is the same time as the Younger Dryas event.

"This was when Earth was coming out of the Ice Age and everything was getting warmer but, all of a sudden, about 12,900 years ago, it went freezing cold again.

"Then about 1000 years later it warmed again and it has been getting warmer to this day.

"So there was a really cold stage where it was like a mini Ice Age and it is believed a comet hit the Earth at that time too.

"This is said to have caused a cooling period.