Flood Myths Around the World
According to the Bible, this man built an arc and escaped a great flood?
Who was Noah?
Sandstone cannot be dated using radiocarbon dating because it lacks this.
What is organic material?
This is the modern country that the Gulf of Varna is on.
What is Bulgaria?
This is the most famous Peruvian civilization.
Who were the Inca?
This is the continent where Peru is located.
What is South America?
In ancient Egypt, this person was responsible for conducting an annual inundation ceremony to make the Nile flood again.
Who was the pharaoh?
This is what a fisherman nicknamed an area near Varna where they catch stones in their nets.
What is the village?
This type of artifact was found on the seafloor in the Gulf of Varna.
What is pottery?
This saved humans in the Peruvian flood story.
What is a talking llama?
This is the continent where Bulgaria is located.
What is Europe?
There were flood myths including gods, dragons, and humans explaining this unpredictable Chinese River.
What is the Yellow River?
This is how deep the landscape was BELOW the current seabed near Varna.
What is 3 feet?
In the Port of Varna, archaeologists found over 13 pounds of this material.
What is gold?
This is the possible reason for human sacrifice in Chan Chan.
What is a plea for the gods to stop the rain?
This is the major body of water forming Bulgaria's coast.
What is the Black Sea?
In this ancient epic, a god whispered about an upcoming flood to Utnapishtim, who became the whole survivor in this Mesopotamian tale.
What was the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This is what the Chimu were recording in their mural.
What are shifting currents?
The oldest settlements along the shoreline predate the Varna gold by approximately this many years.
What is 1000?
In the 15th century, Chan Chan was home to 60,000 people, roughly the size of this city at the same time.
What is London?
This is the name for the climate shift the Chimu experienced.
What is El Nino?
According to these Mesoamericans, the gods were displeased with the wooden people they had created, so the gods sent a flood to wipe them out.
Who are the Mayans?
This is how much sea levels surged after the end of the last ice ages.
What is 300 feet?
Artifacts from the bottom of the Gulf of Varna dated to 5,000 years ago, otherwise known as this major era we studied.
What is the Neolithic?
This is the number of victims at the Chan Chan sacrifice who were under the age of 14.
What is 137?
Glacier layers were this during the significant climate years in Peru.
What is larger?