Noah's flood - William Ryan

Senior geophysicists Ryan and Pitman have spent years researching the Black Sea and while doing so they made an extraordinary discovery. The pre-Flood Black Sea region was a unique oasis in a vast regional desert - it may even have been the Biblical Garden of Eden. But then the rising sea level broke through a dam in the Bosporus Strait, inundating 60,000 square miles. Expelled from their oasis the Black Sea people dispersed throughout the ancient Near East and Old Europe, spreading agriculture and laying the foundations of modern technological civilization - and taking with them the memory of the Flood which passed into folklore in many different cultures, cropping up most notably in the Bible and the epic of Gilgamesh. Both sensational and authoritative, NOAH'S FLOOD is part modern-day scientific detective story and part reconstruction of pre-modern history that gives fresh meaning to ancient myths.