Scientists have uncovered the mystery of the flood

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Ученые раскрыли загадку Всемирного потопа The mystery of the flood and Noah’s ark revealed

The mysteries associated with the world flood and Noah’s ark, there are many, and therefore there is huge scope for the versions, giving them the explanation. Some of the clues he wrote on his page in Facebook Tatiana Short.

On the trail of Noah’s ark
It is considered that the Bible story of the deluge reflects some of the great natural disaster that occurred on the territory of Mesopotamia. The idea of the flood as a global catastrophe of planetary scale – no more than hyperbole. Say, it is clear that for the inhabitants of this region of Mesopotamia and was “the world”. Memories of the cataclysm was included in the “Epic of Gilgamesh”, which allegedly became the prototype of the biblical text.

Universal myth
However, just look at the myths and legends of different peoples, to ensure that it is not. Still John. Fraser in his book “Folklore in the old Testament” (1918) showed that the myths of the flood are available to people not only Middle East but also in Europe, Central and South-Eastern Asia, Polynesia and the American Indians.

All of them are based on the same story: God (or gods) decide to destroy humanity for its sins, but with the warning (warn) one human family of the righteous about the coming disaster, and that saved made “on orders from above” ship or, if you will, the ark.
During the time the Mill was known about 100 such stories, today, that number exceeded 150, and the geography is truly covers the whole world.

He universal nature of this myth is found among different peoples, separated by tens of thousands of kilometers, unwittingly testifies to the fact that we are talking about a certain event on a planetary scale, which is preserved in the historical memory of mankind.

The flood washes away all traces of
All this involuntarily forced scientists to put forward the version about what natural disasters are behind these myths. In 1920-ies from the two archeologists – Leonard Woolley and Stephen Langdon seems to be able to find indisputable evidence of the truthfulness of the biblical story. At the opening in 1929 of the biblical Ur Woolley discovered two ancient cultural layers, separated by a strip of sludge depth of 2.4 m. No other explanation except that the silt was deposited during the flood, it seemed, no.

But even a few months before Langdon Woolley found a layer of silt with a thickness of 1.5 meters between the cultural layers during the excavations of the ancient quiche. During the excavation of ancient Nineveh were discovered in the silt layer with a thickness of 12 meters.

However, the Dating of the layers excavated by Woolley and Langdon, it became clear that we are talking about two different disasters that occurred, respectively, about 3500 and 3000 BC. So it became clear that in fact the local floods, during which the roofs of the highest houses were at a depth of several meters under water, in Mesopotamia occurred quite frequently.

Alas, all these findings did not satisfy the theologians. At least, because the biblical chronology definitely attribute the deluge to the year 2104 BC. In addition, according to the Bible, the water level during the flood rose 15 cubits, that is, 7.5 meters above the highest mountains. The sludge bed height of 2.4 meters, from this point of view is obviously small.

As a result, modern scholars have put forward the version according to which after the biblical flood in General should not remain any traces of human existence, since, as we have said, it was not an ordinary flood, bringing with them the silt and accompanying rocks. Since the Bible says that “opened up all the springs of the great deep and the Windows of heaven”, it seems, is that heavy rains in the days of the flood was accompanied by volcanic eruptions, strong earthquakes, raising the temperature of the water.

Interestingly, the Indian tradition in common with the Bible that the waters of the flood were hot – the Indians say that the water in the ocean these days has turned into the boiling water.

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