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What actually happened during the historic flooding?  
Almost every culture across the globe and independent from each other has some form of "flooding" myth. From Noah's ark, to Hawaii to Atlantis and we have very little understanding of what that looked like and if there truly was a high-culture before that.  


The myths of Babylon obviously exist and there is reasonable proof that there was a high culture in the middle east before the flood but the details are hard to find because they are lost to time and flooding especially destroys historical evidence
gpt
 We have myths about great floods because floods are a really common natural disaster for people who live by rivers. 

The 'historical flood' is Christian mythology playing dress up in a lab coat.