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This is recorded soon after the flood. No doubt this would pre-date anything in Persia."

Noah's flood was probably in 5,600 BC.

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"Noah's flood was probably in 5,600 BC."

These datings can be interesting, of course. If we use Genesis Chapter 5, giving the genealogy from Adam to Noah at 'face value', the year of the flood, starting with Adam as year 'zero', is 1656. This, by the way, is the same year Methusela died.