Lost Civilization Under Persian Gulf?

[Viggen]

A once fertile landmass now submerged beneath the Persian Gulf may have been home to some of the earliest human populations outside Africa, according to an article published in Current Anthropology. Jeffrey Rose, an archaeologist and researcher with the University of Birmingham in the U.K., says that the area in and around this "Persian Gulf Oasis" may have been host to humans for over 100,000 years before it was swallowed up by the Indian Ocean around 8,000 years ago. Rose's hypothesis introduces a "new and substantial cast of characters" to the human history of the Near East, and suggests that humans may have established permanent settlements in the region thousands of years before current migration models suppose...

 

...full article at Science Daily

[Viggen]

...that would fit in nicely with the story of the Great Flood, i presume...

 

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[Bryaxis Hecatee]

It would at that, along with the northern turkish coast flood (which is about the same period if I remember well). Only thing is that the place is a bit too far from mount Ararat (for Noah's Ark), which might make the Turkish hyptohesis as origin for the Flood story a bit more credible. Or we have in fact two stories merging into one as the time goes on (and that would not be a first in the area and the timeframe)

[Kosmo]

Noah story was originally a Mesopotamian one so it makes sense.

The idea that agriculture and what eventually became summerian culture was brought in Lower Mesopotamia by immigrants is pretty old but it was speculated that they came from the Indus Valley