Very probably this event, to whatever extent natural or man-made, was the same event that devastated Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah and which seems to have virtually melted certain areas of the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.
This may also have changed world climates and caused rainfall in Egypt to cease, made the Sahara a true desert, etc.
Great Pyramids built about 2550BC
Ur-Nanshe 1st King of Sumer about 2520BC
Great Flood about 2344BC
Akkadian Dynasty in Sumer about 2334-2154BC
Urnammu King of Sumer about 2112-2095BC
Abraham about 1991-1816BC
Moses about 1250BC
Trojan Wars about 1250BC