Atlantis Rising

<p>In the shadow of Mount Ararat-before Abraham before Gilgamesh-5600 years ago the Mediterranean surged north. A freshwater lake that had sat quietly for millennia suddenly became the Black Sea rising seven feet a day. Villages vanished. Cattle drowned. Farmers fled with their seeds. The Ryan-Pitman hypothesis isn't fringe: it's pollen cores drowned shorelines freshwater snails locked under salt crust. This book follows that diaspora-how the flood didn't just wipe out a valley it seeded the world's oldest myths. Sumer's ark. Noah's wine. The drowned gods of Anatolia. Step by step we trace the escape routes: up the Danube along the Dnieper into the steppes. We see Göbekli Tepe's last hunters abandon their stones maybe even build them as warnings. And when the waters settled? A genetic bottleneck-exactly where we find it. A linguistic echo-heaven-high floods in Proto-Indo-European. Even the Bible's cubits line up once you convert. A cyclopean accumulation of sediment satellite imagery and stubborn hope. No sermons. Just maps dates and the quiet terror of realizing the flood wasn't myth-it was Monday morning for someone. If you ever wondered why so many cultures draw the same drowning dream start here.</p><p> </p>