The stories that shape our understanding of the ancient world are laced and littered with ... FANTHAM: We have the Greek counterpart of the mythical flood of the Bible. The Greek flood took ...

Contrary to what is sometimes claimed, the ancient Egyptians did have a flood myth that is clearly analogous to those seen in ...

Around 12,000 years ago, much of the world ... door to an ancient seaside culture that might never have been studied before. “All we can say is that there has been a major flood, that people ...

The iconic Pyramids of Giza are already one of the world's greatest enigmas ... potentially engulfing parts of ancient Egypt. The flood narrative echoes surprisingly well with ancient Egyptian ...

Finkel is the author of the 2013 book The Ark Before Noah, which decodes the ancient event believed ... survival during a 150-day flood sent to cleanse the world of wickedness.

Cyrene was a Greek colony and one of the principle cities of the ancient Hellenic world before becoming a major centre under the Romans until an earthquake destroyed it in the year 365.