Posted on 09/02/2025 8:18:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
A hidden city buried under Iraq’s desert may hold the key to a forgotten global civilization destroyed by a flood 20,000 years ago.
Credit: Shutterstock | The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel
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In a recent investigation originally published by the Daily Mail and later echoed by Indy100, researchers at the ancient Sumerian site of Tell Fara revealed signs of a previously unknown, potentially advanced civilization buried beneath 5,000-year-old ruins. The findings, which combine geological anomalies with rare artifacts, suggest this early society may have been wiped out by a massive flood nearly 20,000 years ago, long before the emergence of known Mesopotamian cities.
Unexpected Signs Of A Buried World
Tell Fara has been a focus of archaeological interest since the 1930s, excavations have revealed relics such as cuneiform tablets and polychrome ceramics from around 5,000 years ago. But beneath these remains, researchers recently identified a thick layer of yellow clay and sand—an “inundation layer“—suggesting that the site experienced a powerful flood long before the known settlements existed.
This flood layer hints at an earlier civilization buried under layers of sediment. Similar geological signs have also been observed at Ur and Kish in Mesopotamia, Harappa in the Indus Valley, and even ancient Nile River sites in Egypt.
Credit: Erick Schmidt
A Global Disaster 20,000 Years Ago?
Independent researcher Matt LaCroix, who has been studying the phenomenon, believes the evidence points to a disaster that occurred around 20,000 years ago. “Nothing in the last 11,000 years even comes close to explaining it,” LaCroix told the Daily Mail.
He proposes that a dramatic climate shift triggered widespread floods capable of wiping out entire civilizations. Rather than relying solely on archaeological data, he analyzed geological records such as ice cores, tree rings, volcanic ash, and geomagnetic anomalies.
He then cross-referenced this data with flood myths from different cultures and ancient astronomical alignments. According to LaCroix, this method revealed a compelling overlap between the scientific and mythological records.
Ancient Flood, Ancient Tech
The excavations at Tell Fara revealed artifacts beneath the flood layer, including proto-cuneiform tablets, Fara II-style bowls, and intricately decorated polychrome jars—items that reflect a level of craftsmanship and cultural sophistication not typically attributed to Upper Paleolithic societies.
Lead archaeologist Erick Schmidt, working with the Penn Museum, noted the sharp differences between artifacts above and below the flood layer. He described it as an “absolute culture break,” writing that the complete difference in material culture suggests either total erasure or an abrupt reset.
Only a small number of human skeletons have been recovered from the lower layer, leading Schmidt to speculate that people may have fled before the flood reached the city.
Credit: Erick Schmidt
From Ancient Memory To Shared History
LaCroix contends that this lost civilization may have been part of a global network, connected not just by trade but by common symbols, myths, and catastrophic memories. The fact that similar flood stories are found in ancient Sumer, Egypt, India, and even pre-Columbian Peru suggests a shared cultural memory of an event that reshaped early human history.
He emphasizes that this isn’t just” a merely coincidence,” the alignment of flood deposits at sites like Tell Fara, Ur, and Kish with stories of ancient floods points to what he calls “a shared memory of real catastrophic events.”
PinGGG!......................
Flood?
I think I read something about that...
“He proposes that a dramatic climate shift triggered widespread floods capable of wiping out entire civilizations.”
I guess it was all their coal fired power plants and gas guzzling SUVs that caused it. Their leaders should have just raised taxes and they’d still be around.
Noah might have some insight to this.
Still waiting for an Ancient SUV to be dug up.................
Huh.
What I cannot understand why, if such civilizations existed, evidence of advanced metallurgy has not been found, advanced alloys and metals and other evidence of advanced technology. Why only stone work and elementary ceramics?
Also I wonder why so many ancient sites are deep under the oceans and why in some, Göbekli Tepe e.g., include extensive underground networks and, apparently, dwelling places. Why were these people underground? Were they seeking refuge there?
“mysterious”? Geesh. We’ve known about the flood at the end of the last ice age for years. You just now connected the dots on that? That is how Doggerland in the (now) North Sea went under.
Bookmark.
No assertions or statements on the dating of objects below the sediment layer.
Conjecture.
It will have to be a Toyota, they last longer.
Only one.
And Noah built according to Gods instructions and was saved from the flood.
Nah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuruppak
[snip] The earliest excavated levels at Shuruppak date to the Jemdet Nasr period about 3000 BC. Several objects made of arsenical copper were found in Shuruppak/Fara dating to the Jemdet Nasr period (c. 2900 BC). Similar objects were also found at Tepe Gawra (levels XII-VIII). [/snip]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_of_Shuruppak
[snip] Ubara-Tutu is recorded in most extant copies of the Sumerian King List as being the final king of Sumer prior to the deluge. Ubara-tutu is briefly mentioned in tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh, where he is identified as the father of Utnapishtim, a character who is instructed by the god Ea to build a boat in order to survive the coming flood.[4] Grouped with the other cuneiform tablets from Abu Salabikh, the Instructions date to the early third millennium BCE, being among the oldest surviving literature. [/snip]
Mesopotamian flood myths:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth#Mesopotamia
[snip] The alluvial layer dates from around 2900 BC. [/snip]
and a different Tell Fara:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0305440377900310
Tell el-Far’ah (South)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_el-Far‘ah_(South)
and another different one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirzah_(Tell_el-Farah_North)
and in Egypt, yet another different one:
Buto/Tell el-Fara’in
https://msu-anthropology.github.io/daea-fs16/sites/buto/buto.html
https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/node/1172
Unusual, weird, outer serpentine walls.
Thanks RB. Imagine that, ancient riverine civilizations had floods. Whoa.
Arsenical copper would seem to indicate a precise knowledge of metallurgy.............
As long as they had some spare water pumps handy (no vehicle is perfect).
They didn’t have TV. Also, copper is generally found with arsenic in it.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=copper+arsenic&summary=1
Nice arsenical copper bust from Mesopotamia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenical_copper
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