Huh. Woolley’s excavation of Ur found a thick intervening layer. Between breaks in artificial barriers like levees and unusually large seasonal floods, it’s not unlikely that some ancient cities and towns that survive in the cuneiform have probably not been found because they were buried and never rebuilt. None of this has anything to do with a global flood as claimed in the clickbait.
My crazy theory is that a maritime civilization grew and flourished in regions which are now under one or two hundred feet of seawater, and that the end of that civilization came surprisingly quickly as the glaciers melted. This then is why what I would call “fully developed” civilizations mark the beginning of civilizations as identified from the archeological record. They were the descendant cultures of those which had been washed away.
/tinfoil