The inventory of flood legends through the ages is long and wide. Ancient Sumerian myth talks about a king who saved his people after learning that the gods did not intend to spare anyone from an ...

Almost all of us have heard of The Great Flood, which turned Earth into a water-world. It is referred to in religious texts and folktales including ancient texts.

The taming of the Great Flood thus represents a dream of social order. Whoever could achieve it would be, virtually by definition, a virtuous person and a valid ruler. According to historian Mark ...

Geologists have proposed the possibility of a great flood in the Middle East at the end of the last Ice Age, which was about 7,000 years ago. At that time, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake ...

There are different versions of the Great Flood myth, handed down through oral tradition for hundreds of years before finally being written down around 1000 BC.

A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long before the Bible’s famous story ...

The Great Flood Myth Is Happening Again. Posted: April 14, 2025 | Last updated: April 14, 2025. As the echoes of ancient tales resurface, we find ourselves facing nature's unyielding force yet ...

These stories are generally taken as myths or morality tales, but scientists have now found evidence that a great flood did occur in the region of the Black Sea about 7,000 years ago.