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.
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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.”
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Kind of reminiscent of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey. Wonder if they were related?
More like a rudimentary knowledge. Perhaps even no knowledge - they might have mined it in that state.
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I find this whole line of thought fascinating. The best explanation I've heard is that 12,000 years ago the earth was hit by a series of asteroids or a comet breakup flying through the Taurid Meteor Stream.
It wiped out a developed civilization...perhaps not developed along the same lines as ours and perhaps with different technologies. The survivors figured out it would likely happen again and so built ancient structures like the pyramids and a number of underground cities in Cappadocia Turkey in order for humanity to ride out the next one. The Taurids happen in spring and fall and so they also became fixated on the solstices and built structures to calculate and warn future humans. Randall Carlson, Graham Hancock and others paint a fascinating picture of this.
For sure.
I don’t know where the poster is getting information about underground newtworks at Göbekli Tepe. AFAIK there is no such evidence—at all. As to ancient sites underwater, that’s easy to explain: we’re on the tail end of an ice age and ocean levels have risen as ice melted.
Peter Gabriel - Here Comes The Flood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C23LikPhWs&list=RD3C23LikPhWs&start_radio=1
i hadn't heard that either. It's close enough to Cappadocia though that there may be some confusion. There's also a conspiracy theory that the Turkish government is slow walking Gobekli Tepe for something very similar. Things were discovered that would upend our current view of history.
The evidence suggests an advanced civilization existing before 10,000 B.C. or more.
I've wondered about an asteroid or comet causing a prolonged winter, driving people underground.
Another idea is a war such as is described in the Mahabharata. Certainly a nuclear war would explain it, but the lack of persistent radioactivity argues against that, unless it happened in the far distant past. Civil unrest could drive people underground for protection, and that might be the explanation.
I do think the Vedic texts are history. So do the Indians. One can visit the Battlefield of Kurukshetra today.
Sumer some ain’t...............
bkmk
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