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It is undeniably true that there were floods in prehistoric times, some of them rather extreme. For example, 5.3 million years ago water broke through the Strait of Gibraltar and flooded the entire Mediterranean.

Much more recently, between 7500- and 5500-years BCE, water broke through the Bosporus strait and flooded the Black Sea, which rose several hundred feet and inundated approximately 150,000 square kilometers (60,000 square miles) of land. Similarly, the Persian Gulf filled after waters rose following the last ice age, roughly 12,000 BCE. A large flood occurred in China on the Yellow River in 1800 BCE. And there are countless instances of smaller-scale floods in the geological record, including at various Middle Eastern locales.