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Many cultures share a myth of a great worldwide flood

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The story of Noah's Ark isn't uniquely isolated. Anthropologists have found striking parallels in the Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia, the Hindu texts featuring Manu, and native Mesoamerican legends. This universal mythology suggests early human civilizations may have collectively survived a massive, traumatizing prehistoric sea-level rise at the end of the last Ice Age.

Many cultures share a myth of a great worldwide flood
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