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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.