Noah's Flood

By: William Ryan, Walter Pitman

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Paperback | 25 January 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Over the millennia, the legend of a great deluge has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Now two distinguished geophysicists have discovered a catastrophic event that changed history, a gigantic flood 7,600 years ago in what is today the Black Sea.

Using sound waves and coring devices to probe the sea floor, William Ryan and Walter Pitman revealed clear evidence that this inland body of water had once been a vast freshwater lake lying hundreds of feet below the level of the world's rising oceans. Sophisticated dating techniques confirmed that 7,600 years ago the mounting seas had burst through the narrow Bosporus valley, and the salt water of the Mediterranean had poured into the lake with unimaginable force, racing over beaches and up rivers, destroying or chasing all life before it. The rim of the lake, which had served as an oasis, a Garden of Eden for farms and villages in a vast region of semi-desert, became a sea of death. The people fled, dispersing their languages, genes, and memories.

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Richard Ellis The New York Times Book Review An interesting and provocative story...Ryan and Pitman have thoroughly researched every aspect of this intricately woven story. They are articulate, enthusiastic, and dedicated. Philip Morrison and Phylis Morrison Scientific American As engaging as it is important...exciting...full of surprises, rivalries, and partnerships. Amanda Heller The Boston Globe A complex but thoroughly plausible solution to this intriguing mystery in a narrative of surprisingly dramatic intensity. David Brown The Washington Post A fascinating lesson in geology, oceanography, archaeology, and inductive reasoning.

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List of Maps	p. 9
Note to the Reader	p. 12
Prologue: Witnesses	p. 13
The Discovery of the Flood Story
Deciphering the Legend	p. 21
Conversions	p. 31
Visions of Palaces	p. 36
The Face of the Deep	p. 45
Ur of the Chaldees	p. 52
The Discovery of a Real Flood
Hidden River	p. 61
Gibraltar's Waterfall	p. 73
Vanished Deserts	p. 93
Pontus Axenus	p. 101
Red Hill	p. 108
Aquanauts	p. 118
Immigrants	p. 128
Close Encounter	p. 135
Beachcombers	p. 143
Back of the Envelope	p. 152
Who Was There, and Where Did They Go?
Anybody There?	p. 165
The Diaspora	p. 188
Family Trees	p. 202
The Guslar's Song	p. 217
The Flood Stories Told
On a Golden Pond	p. 229
Other Myths	p. 238
Epilogue: A Telling of Atrahasis	p. 253
Acknowledgments	p. 261
Notes	p. 263
Index	p. 303
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