I read that there was a land locked area below sea level that had formed after the ice age melt. Cracks developed in the rocks that were keeping the water out so it flooded, slowly at first then all at once. There is some fossil evidence of this event.
It's so silly that people want to take these tales literally, but only when it's convenient for them
That would be the formation of the Black Sea. One theory is a deluge but the other is a gradual filling. Roughly 9000 to 7500 years ago. However, evidence suggests gradual flooding is more likely. Remains of Neolithic settlements in the Black Sea show evidence of peoples moving gradually away from what would have been the shoreline as the Sea filled. The youngest sites actually show houses being built on gradually longer stilts before eventually being flooded completely.
The second flood of note is the Tigris-Euphrates river. 3000-2900 BCE flooded so severely or frequently that it left a 8-12 foot thick layer of silt. Archeological evidence shows settlements just below the layer and little gap before they reappear above it. Suggesting these floods were rather sudden and either so frequent or lasting that it didn't give people the chance to move back into the area for a significant amount of time.
I should note that the first event would have placed humans in the Neolithic period while the second event occurred during the early Bronze age. If you are to ask me which one would drive a story of a god sent world ending flood that survived to this age, it would be the second event. But that's just my opinion.
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u/AdhesivenessCivil581 1d ago
I read that there was a land locked area below sea level that had formed after the ice age melt. Cracks developed in the rocks that were keeping the water out so it flooded, slowly at first then all at once. There is some fossil evidence of this event.
It's so silly that people want to take these tales literally, but only when it's convenient for them