Cosmos & Neil Degrasse Tyson state that Great Flood occurred in Sumeria & retold as Noah's Ark

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158. Without a doubt, there was no global flood.

Just isn't enough water for that. (Thank God)

The picture I posted was of the ruined temples of Gobekli Tepe in modern-day Turkey. It is the most ancient example of monumental architecture that has yet been found. It's full of carvings of animals and anthropomorphic figures. It took the coordinated efforts of many, many people to build, and yet it has been dated all the way back to the Neolithic.

After hundreds of years of use, it was eventually abandoned and purposefully buried around the 8th millennium BC - four thousand years before the early stages of the Mesopotamian civilizations.

Nothing remains of those years but myths, legends, and a few surviving artifacts. They had no written language to leave us records of their legends, stories, and deeds. And yet, the people were, in many ways, just like us. They lived in villages, and even towns with populations in the hundreds. There were priests, and tradesmen, and politicians. There were extensive trade networks that spread goods and ideas all over Western Asia.

The people lived and died, and their little kingdoms rose and fell, and all has been forgotten except for perhaps a few whispers that have lived on in our legends and stories.

We didn't just jump from being cavemen to building nation-states like Egypt and Sumer. A lot of things happened along the way, most of which we will never know. But it is very likely that these people contributed many things to the civilizations that eventually arose among their descendants.