Religion and archaeology seemed to be as one when geologist Bill Ryan suggested that Noah's flood could have happened. Rising sea levels in the Mediterranean afterthe last Ice Age could have burst through a natural dam into the Black Sea, wiping out coastal communities in what would have appeared like a global cataclysm. But new research questions this. Geoff Watts discovers how the flood story may be a myth after all.
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