BEHOLD. THE UNIVERSE.
20d 8h ago by piefed.social/u/PugJesus in cartographyanarchy@sh.itjust.works from media.piefed.social
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Sumeria: We've got what Ur looking for!
Some bronze age storyteller: "And then the whole world was flooded!"
'The whole world' according to that bronze age storyteller:
The great flood was long before this it is thought. Like 10K years back.
There was no great flood 10 000 years back, no. There was a slow rise in sea levels that happened over a few thousand years at the end of the Ice Age. The Sumerian stories from 4000 years ago talk about a flood that wiped a couple of cities, mainly Shuruppak, and we do find traces of that city indeed getting wiped by a flood around 2900 BCE (it got better). Late Bronze Age copied that story a few times, and then some early Iron Age people copied that text and claimed it was the whole world.
Here be perverts
Would be funny if tyre was visibly an island, as it would be for a few more thousand years
For the interested: tyre was an island, Alexander the great built a causeway to conquer it. The causeway affected the currents and caused more sand to build up.
Ah yes, Turkey had always been a tourist destination.