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There is a similar theory about the Black Sea: the Black Sea deluge hypothesis [1].

From Wikipedia:

The Black Sea deluge is a hypothesized catastrophic rise in the level of the Black Sea circa 5600 BC from waters from the Mediterranean Sea breaching a sill in the Bosphorus strait.

(This one, if true, is pretty interesting because it occurred within fairly recent human history.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis



This has been theorized to be the origin of Great Flood myths, both Biblical and those of earlier cultures.


The embellishing is pretty amazing, and added the bit about it going down again. Maybe if we repent hard enough we can get the sea level lower?





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