The Persian Gulf is a truly interesting place. Let's talk about its archaeological mysteries. Many archaeological excavations have been carried out in the Persian Gulf area. Archaeologists have discovered many ancient cities here that emerged about 7500-8000 years ago along its coastline.
At the moment, at least six dozen such cities have been discovered. But what a strange thing - in all these cities, researchers have not been able to find any traces of the gradual development of civilization.
And the ancient artifacts discovered by archaeologists have not changed in any way throughout the existence of these cities. So what happens - these peoples came out of nowhere? How were the ancient Sumerians? Unfortunately, we will most likely never get an exact answer to this question - we did not live at that time.
But what is interesting is that some researchers believe that these peoples "moved here", i.e. have come already developed. How could this happen? The thing is that the latest studies of this region indicate that during the last ice age on our planet, on the site of the Persian Gulf, land could exist.
A group of British researchers from the University of Birmingham, led by Geoffrey Rose, came to similar conclusions. Scientists have discovered about 40 archaeological sites with stone tools and other ancient artifacts at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
From which the British suggested that during the ice age there was land here and these territories could be inhabited. Rose also suggested that the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula did not come here "out of nowhere" at the beginning of the Holocene - most likely, they migrated here from previously flooded areas.
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The British also suggested that the biblical legend of the Great Flood had a very real foundation. But scientists believe that the authors of the Bible greatly exaggerated the rate of flooding - according to the assumptions of researchers, the flooding did not even take several days - it stretched for centuries and, possibly, millennia.
Therefore, it is hardly possible to call this phenomenon a catastrophe. On what basis did scientists make such bold conclusions? The fact is that they found a noticeable increase in the number of settlements in the area of the modern coastline of the Persian Gulf.
And this increase began from the middle of the seventh millennium BC and lasted until the end of the fifth millennium BC. Scientists do not deny that the ancient Sumerians could well have been one of the peoples "driven" here - after all, official science is still arguing about their origin.
Scientists only know that they appeared on the territory of Mesopotamia around the 4th millennium BC.
As for the legend of the Great Flood, scientists do not exclude that it could have migrated to the pages of the Bible precisely from Sumerian legends - after all, exactly the same information about the flood was discovered by archaeologists on many Sumerian clay tablets, which are much older than the Holy Scriptures.