Although conventional astronomy suggests that large, (> 1 km), impactors hit the Earth once every 300,000 years we have assembled evidence for at least 3 large oceanic impacts during the last 11,000 years. The ~ 1.5 km “Deluge comet” produced the 29 km Burckle crater, which is astronomically estimated to be 4800 years old. This impact may be responsible for ancient legends about torrential rainfall, hurricane force winds, and coastal mega-tsunamis.

Based on their crater size, the energies needed to make the Mahuika and Burckle impact craters are > 400,000 and > 2,000,000 megatons, respectively.

2807 BC — Suggested date for an asteroid or comet impact occurring between Africa and Antarctica, around the time of a solar eclipse on May 10, based on an analysis of flood stories. Possibly causing the Burckle crater and Fenambosy Chevron.

I thought Archaeology had already decided that Mesopotamia was plagued by seasonal floods.

Excavations in Iraq have shown evidence of a flood at Shuruppak and other Sumerian cities: a layer of riverine sediment interrupting the continuity of settlement, which was radiocarbon dated to about 2900 BC, and which extended as far north as the city of Kish. Polychrome pottery from the Jemdet Nasr Period (3000-2900 BCE) was found immediately below the Shuruppak flood layer.

as every city was built on the banks of a river

the flooding didn't come from the sea after all, it came from the rivers

Fig. 2. The Ancient regions and cities of Mesopotamia. Present-day cities are
underlined. The former courses of the ancient Eiphrates (Purattu) and Tigris (Idiqlat)
Rivers, and the former approximate extent of the Persian Gulf are denoted by short
dashes. Long dashes denote present day boundaries between countries.

Originally posted by cormac mac airt
Assuming that you will agree with me that most floods are caused by heavy rains, then what about the following from just the Mesopotamian area, taken from your link:

Sumerian: flood to destroy mankind

Babylonian: flood to destroy all humans

Assyrian: to cleanse the earth of an overpopulated humanity, waters of the abyss rose up

Accounts attributed to Berosus: oceans, inland seas, and rivers burst forth from beneath, attended by many days of violent rain


Hebrew: floodwaters came from the heavens and from the deeps

Islamic: water gushed from underground and fell from the sky

I think even you have to admit that that isn't how a normal flood happens.

Originally posted by cormac mac airt
As I said in an earlier post, if flooding is happening from 2 sources, it doesn't matter what you call it. It is still devastating.

I could be entirely wrong as to the Burckle Crater incident as to the cause, time will tell.

as you can see the rivers were never claimed to be static.

written by a people with very little grasp of the mechanics of flooding.

I think you will have to admit that the oldest flood story is that told in Gilgamesh and dates to around 2500bce

all of these others you have listed are known to be derived from a mesopotamian source

For a huge flood to have been caused by a meteorite strike they might have mentioned that in all of the accounts that the flood occoured shortly after something fell from the heavens.

but it has told, there was no great flood at all.