The Great Flood and Its Aftermath

In the Great Flood of ancient Mesopotamian mythology, the gods cower from the storm as humanity teeters on the brink of extinction. What saves humanity? A subversive act: when the god of wisdom and magic tells a flood survivor to build an ark. While the Mesopotamian flood story sounds similar to one in the Bible or the Qur’an, they are quite distinct. This Great Lecture explores whether the Great Floods really happened; and recounts well-known and newly identified versions of the Mesopotamian flood, as well as related stories from other cultures.
Dr. Stephen J. Tinney, Deputy Director, Chief Curator, and Head of Collections and Research

[@NoOne-qs1he]

These talks are just the best thing on youtube. Although it's Akkadian, I consider Dr. Tinney to also be Atrahasis. :)

[@TheSharperSword]

These lectures are awesome not only for the presentations but also for the great source references they mention. This lecture for example, has made me realize that I need to read Ovid's Metamorphoses...

[@Nacho12396]

Rewatching all the old lectures--great stuff! Obviously, the topic is relevant to multiple religions/mythologies (and I certainly won't critique anyone for their spiritual/cultural beliefs), but the amount of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories in this comment section is fascinating!

[@kermitefrog64]

What is fascinating is that all peoples including Native Americans throughout North and South American, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Polynesian cultures a world that shares a common history and have a great flood event in their stories. There are various differences but the similarities outweigh the differences in a way that supports the unique account that is found in the book of Genesis.

[@davidhoogendyke2774]

Because floods happen everywhere!!!.

[@andrewwigglesworth3030]

@@davidhoogendyke2774 ... and there's masses of mythology and creation myths etc. that are not shared. A lot of the so-called similarities are also simply made up by inventing or eliding parts of the myths.

[@jerald6023]

​​@@andrewwigglesworth3030 much mythology is being scientifically proven to be fact- check out the 900 mile long Dragon carcass killing the massive fish both of which occupy most of North Africa! & just below is the eye of the Sahara- now known as the location of Atlantis- as also seen on several ancient maps- true story

[@andrewwigglesworth3030]

@@jerald6023 Sorry to have to say this, but, you're nuts. You are in loony tunes territory, so much so that I think you must surely be trolling us.

[@erosh747]

Fascinating speech. As a human who love the Almighty One though I don't know the past like everybody does, the followings may be right from my findings. 1. The flood story is found in every culture though different in the stories. It is a fact. 2. This was done to destroys all living beings created by God. Humans as usual are naughty, greedy and indisciplined just as in the present days. 3. Some survived the flood and God had sympathy over them and lives continues again. The people live longer in the past is a fact. The Earth was more cleaner and healthier. 4. There was God who created us. Evil and good both exist in this world. 5. The differentiation of God is created by man because of difference in language, long separation from one another, kings and rulers and mainly due to the separate dialects and scripts. 6. Civilization rose and declined due to war, famine, drought, epedemics, earthquakes and volcanoes. 7. Let's not fight one another because of our silly differences but love God and love one another. 8. One last request evolutionists and creationists please don't hate one another. Let's find out the truth together. 9. Life is shorter nowadays let's live peacefully. 10. One Sun, one moon and one Earth. Maybe there is only one God for all of us.

[@fredsilvers1427]

There are those that have been here every since. Now inhabiting many. They don't care about getting along. Only to take as many as possible with them in the end. It's happening now.

[@chadsevedra925]

Beautifully said. May Gid bless you

[@davidwatson2399]

Whats an "evolutionist" ?

[@davidwatson2399]

There was never a global flood.

[@davidwatson2399]

"Life is shorter these days" where did you get that idea? No, life is longer these days.

[@seenogodspeaknogodhearnogo4531]

P.S.; the painting (16th century) you show in your presentation shows the last two lions eating one of the last two horses; how is the other horse going to reproduce and save the species from extinction; wishful thinking does not make myths true.

[@cleo6205]

The thumbnail photo looks strange.

[@bradstocker1717]

An amazing and interesting talk 👏👏

[@dancenickyjeppe]

Very very very nice work of the doctor.

[@dancenickyjeppe]

And at least, is a knowledge one, following some steps.

[@enkisonofanu2301]

Excellent

[@free_gold4467]

Excellent!

[@there_can_only_be_one__unicorn]

He said something about the Ark of the Covenant not knowing where it is how old is this video I just watch one where they unearth the ark and it was years ago

[@yrebrac]

The Ark was lost a long time ago, before or during the classical era, probably during one of the many sacks of Jerusalem. Careful where you get your information on youtube, a lot of it is insane rubbish

[@there_can_only_be_one__unicorn]

@@yrebrac Ron Wyatt

[@blaisen.3239]

My friend,the real ark has never been seen by any human,except the ancient Israelites(Hebrews),however the ark is real!,and we know it’s real because it exists.The real ark of the covenant holding the real tablets of the 10 commandments is held in a Christian orthodox church in Ethiopia,no-one,this includes scientists,archeologists,historians,or even Christian leaders can see it except the one monk(name of the head of a Orthodox Church,similar to a priest of a Catholic Church)assigned to guard it.This is because believing in god is by the heart not by sight.

[@there_can_only_be_one__unicorn]

@@blaisen.3239 an answer awesome great thank you very much so then the documentary is fake and no one's disproved it and no one's come forward truly straight outs and Ron Wyatt is a fake then I wonder about the lab that took samples the educated people that were with him doing this it's been awhile since I've seen the documentary and personally I wondered it would be an epic event and I don't remember there ever being announced it would definitely be the find of that decade century. K thank you for your attention and time. Since covid-19 I've had my nose in a lot of literature of course I might have to weed out some but it definitely has become overwhelming many questions I have especially from (please don't let my ignorance discourage you) the book of Adam and Eve or is that Genesis I've listen to audiobooks one of the Genesis and includes half the stuff of Adam and Eve??? Some stories are more detailed than others but it is within those words I have quite a few questions I've asked a few people of religious position and they can't answer it anyways thank you very much for your time your reply I do appreciate it

[@there_can_only_be_one__unicorn]

@@blaisen.3239 oh heck I didn't read it all wonderful thank you very much -and yes believing has been the bane of the issue from the beginning; always wanting see with one's eyes and not with one's heart spirit and mind. Personally for myself I always thought that I had to believe in myself before I could believe in a creator if you can't believe in yourself how can you believe in a creator and in turn demand proof of existence that's me and my line of thought I've always been a very spiritual person just with no structure or Direction and in the past few years the whole thought is becoming very immense the point where it feels infinite. Ethiopia?? And they recognize all cannons over 80? (again, excusemy ignorance) ;no better place for it to rest! Since covid-19 I've had a lot of time on my hands to clench my inquisitive thirst foreknowledge of everything and how everything meshes together eg. The great deluge. I read books that are so descriptive that explain when God banished the snake he threw it in India and then I've had books that have no description of such event so much stuff you have to filter through not to mention the fact the original kJamesB is well? not original!! full of omissions additions added letters; its the fourth translation?? I'm stuck in the book of Adam and Eve (I think? again pardon my lack of knowledge) there are two statements by the creator of all that seemed cannot be explained or answered correctly. I am very weary of people who wish to interpret the Bible to me and tell me what they think it says to me. Anyways thank you very much for your time and attention I rambled on enough if you wish to carry on and maybe help me with my two questions I have for the moment that be great if not you don't have the time that's awesome as well again thank you very much for your reply

[@anasalsubhi6370]

what's with the continuing rude coughings that are associated with almost all lectures .civilized learned group of people indeed !

[@gruboniell4189]

Cosmic impacts are a geological regular occurrence.

[@shardanette1]

Funniest line of the night, "Many people who are familiar with either Christianity or Islam know this material" he says while reading the book of Genesis. You know who else knows it? Jews. They kinda wrote that version.

[@leosrule5691]

That's the biggest problem with American Christians. They think that Jewish = Christian. They dont actually read the Hebrew bible, they let a priest make a sermon every Sunday off a chosen scripture. They are completely ignorant of facts.

[@husambotros3958]

Listen from 5:05 and you will understand why he only mentioned Christians and Muslims.

[@seanh4841]

@@leosrule5691 I prefer the Sumerian version and I'm looking for a decent reading of the Egyptian mound of creation.

[@PURPLE.REIGN.1999]

Many Christians are not familiar with their Bibles.

[@seanh4841]

@@PURPLE.REIGN.1999 I just love seeing Evangelical Christians wandering around with multiple tattoos, Leviticus I believe

[@mver191]

Very interesting!

[@ivornelsson2238]

If archaeologists want to lecture in mythical matters of the cultural Stories of Creation, they logically need to be familiar with descriptions of astronomy and cosmology, as such informations are included and described in the ancient mythical Stories of Creation. --------------- The cultural “Flood Myth” is constituted by the whitish Earth encircling Milky Way band, which in several cultures were dubbed the Milky Way RIVER. --------------- This River/Flood is “floating” all around and ABOVE the Earth, thus “covering all mountains”, and the dualistic revenge history, is simply added by ignorant scholars who have no clues of the cosmological extended content in ancient Stories of Creation. ------------- The Flood Myth concerns celestial informations directly connected to the creation of the Milky Way, and has nothing to do with disastrous catastrophes on Earth, hence there logically were no aftermaths as well.

[@pthomps1954]

A bolide of molten sulfur smashed into western Egypt, creating the Qattara Depression, continued on to hit the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, then smashed into Turkey, leaving an impact site called Anaximander Mountain. The sulfur fumes slid down the mountains to the Nile where it condensed on the cool water as a blood red liquid. Some fumes formed sulfur trioxide which touched the water to form sulfuric acid, killing all the fish. It also reacted with skin moisture and the acid caused boils. When it smashed into Turkey, the flaming sulfur rained down on Sodom and Gomorrah and burned them to the ground. Pools of molten sulfur formed in every depression and burned with thick columns of smoke. The sulfur in the air burned like the sun and extended daylight for another ten hours. To observers it looked like a sun except it stayed in the same position. Water vapor formed by the hot object saturated the atmosphere over a huge area. This would later come back to the sea as relentless rain. The water level rose until it was halfway up the sides of the Great Pyramid. That would be 137 meters above sea level. From the size of the round mark it left on the sea floor, it appeared to be at least 110km in diameter. This flood wiped out the civilizations around the Mediterranean Sea. Those in the mountains survived including the slaves working in Luxor. They fled from Egypt, using the column of smoke to guide them by day and the flames by night. This explains the many strange things written in the Bible including all the plagues. People migrated to the now uninhabited area meeting little resistance from whatever survivors were still there.

[@moodist1er]

It explains nothing except that you like weird fiction.

[@davidwatson2399]

That was a waste of cut and paste time.

[@pthomps1954]

@@davidwatson2399 What does that mean?

[@davidwatson2399]

@@pthomps1954 It means exactly what it says. You are talking nonesense

[@pthomps1954]

It explains the flood, the exodus, all the plagues and all the evidence that we know about the collapse. It also flooded the Black Sea with saltwater that is still there. Also we have the impact crater and all the surrounding devastation. The number of current theories that can even come close is zero.

[@MullahSteinberg]

Catastrophes for this series ?, how about one on the virus ?

[@alexkodwiw2640]

If the whole earth was flooded, where did the waters recede to and how?

[@josephodiase174]

.. Like God making more volumes in the ocean floors...

[@yoridetth856]

I believe it seeped back into the earth and made it grow

[@jonnyy4088]

There are subterranean 'seas' under america three times the volume of the world's oceans.

[@doubleplusdanny]

When glaciers melt sea-levels rise. When rivers flood the banks widen and recede into the ocean. But these stories concern local floods, not global.

[@davidwatson2399]

@@jonnyy4088 😂🤣

[@harrietfishlow685]

I wish he would cut the intro and get to the subject

[@Teresa22hb]

Thanks

[@davidellis5135]

I think the moon did a half roll when the fountains of the great deep burst open,punneling the moon with huge rocks causing to slowly roll, the side we see today was the far side 4.and half thousand years ago and Chinese scientists are finding the rocks on the far side seem younger then they should be, cos they originate from earth.

[@craigb8228]

Can you reference this?

[@bardmadsen6956]

It is so amazing how close humanity gets to mysteries, at 32:22 showing the sky, the sun, the moon, and the comet, just above the ecliptic as the Taurid Stream, that caused the fire from the sky and the deluge. Then at 33:50 showing all of the previous along with lightning and rocks in the sky representing super bolides as everyone knows lightning does not produce stones. Alike Adad's thunder axe with curvy vortices (Filler from a prior video.) Even the first line with torches of fire and brilliance sure describes bolides not lightning. Look up Chinese New Year Dragons noticing the bright pearl they chase and compare footage of the 2013 Russian Meteor. The repeating sevens are a reminder of the Pleiades in-which it came exactly as one of the central monoliths of enclosure D in Gobekli Tepe stands on showing dominance over the seven birds. This one must represent the sun and the partner monolith has a bull on its chest representing the constellation of Taurus as in the Taurid Stream. That had to be the best Penn. video that I've seen so far.

[@andreitone]

big city 'evolved' society is not how God intended people to live. He is not punishing Noah. You don't understand the meaning of these writings because you don't know God. Read Jakob Lorber's 'The Household of God' with an unprejudiced open mind and you will. You will also know a detailed account of the Deluge and antediluvian reality and true Wisdom. Hope you can recognize it.

[@ourlifeinwashington4114]

See Bryan Nickle's KZbin video for real evidence and in depth explanation of what happened. Calling it a flood is like calling a tsunami a rain drop. The entire earth split and rotated.

[@ibelievegodexists4198]

@Truth teller wat?

[@ourlifeinwashington4114]

@@ibelievegodexists4198 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqLZo6KbnMpgfs0

[@ibelievegodexists4198]

@Triage Ministries I do watch tht channel

[@canadiankewldude]

Thank you and may God bless.

[@urkozaminje86]

5000 BC ? Impossible

[@Hoowwwww]

spends 10k on moniter setup and then spends $5 on a mic

[@christianwitness]

correction: great flood in midwest usa 1937. Great presentation.

[@nosoyono1081]

I believe in the days before Noah humanity was one race. I believe man had God given technology I believe what the holy Bible tells us. How man built a tower and God separated man from east to west that was the time humanity became different race different color and spoke different languages. God Almighty did this because man sin angst God try to rise above God.

[@yayhay7822]

so who’s “true image” were we created as? What image? Jesus who was middle eastern?

[@justinyang5989]

They just discovered an impact crater over Greenland which explains the great worldwide flood. It was discovered by NASA beneath Hiawatha Glacier. Amazing times!

[@Jelly_Juice2006]

Younger Dryas impact

[@fredsilvers1427]

NASA wants you to believe in explanations independent of God. Their mission is deception.

[@rogercaldwell2440]

@@fredsilvers1427 for real

[@kclords1852]

If you are interested in the ark like myself, look into Ron Wyatt's discoveries. The Turks have always known where it is, Ron just did some extensive tests. I believe it is the real thing.

[@davidhoogendyke2774]

The Ark is a myth...Sheesh!.

[@stephengibson4823]

When will you people stop citing Ron Wyatt ? He was a fraud and before you start I've visited to his "discovery". Even avid christians that went knew they had been conned by a tourist trap that's raking in money for the Turkish tourist board lol. You do know that there are at least 3 other claims. There was no "world wide flood", just floods world wide.

[@tehdreamer]

@@stephengibson4823 how do you explain the iron signatures that were detected in exact pattern that corresponds to the support beams of the boat structure,m

[@stephengibson4823]

@@tehdreamer Please send me a link showing conclusive INDEPENDENT verified evidence of this please.

[@stephengibson4823]

@@tehdreamer An unbiased source btw

[@JayJay-ft9zu]

The great flood did happen

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

The great flood was a meteorite impact down by Madagascar after the last ice age and really did flood everything in that area out of the blue. Didn't rain till all that evaporated sea water fell afterwards and our Bible gets the story from the "epic of Gilgamesh". So it really happened long long before the Egytians built the pyramids close to the end of the last ice age.

[@whtalt92]

I think you need to talk first with one of the other posters here, he seems quite convinced it's not Madagascar but Greenland.

[@fountbrooks2997]

Interesting that this man spends all of his time on the fairy tales , when the real story is in Hebrew and has been and still is the best selling book of all time. The Bible.

[@GregoryJByrne]

The Climate cycles of our water planet as determined by the Galactic Milankovitch cycles are continental glaciers with lower sea levels (Dwarka, Atlantis's) brought on by East to West Global Tsunami's (Younger Dryas, Gobekli tepe) every 13,000 years half the Precessional/Great Year/Yuga cycles) when our solar system crosses over our galaxies Electromagnetic/Gravitational Plane/Equator. It takes Millenia to cross the Galactic plane and EM plasma Bursts, E-W global tsunami's will gradually get worst for 500 years until we start heading out of the galactic plane. In the MILLENIA it takes for our solar system to cross the galactic plane we are going to experience EM plasma bursts, Asteroid impacts due to crossing the galaxies Kuiper's belt, and East to West Global Tsunami's from the increased EM/gravity while crossing over the galactic plane. The last time we crossed over the galaxies equator was the Younger Dryas layer or When Gobekli tepe was buried under 15 meters of 19 sedimentary layers covering 9 hectares spanning MILLENIA. There are 7-26,000 year precession cycles in one 240,000 year rotation of the Galactic bulge Eccentricity cycle. There are 4 60,000 year quadrants in the obliquity/magnetic north global warming/cooling cycle in accordance to our position relative the galactic bulge. Perihelion with the galactic bulge is when magnetic north is at it's maximum 24.5 degrees inclination. Noah's flood is not the precession/Great Year/Yuga cycles flood. It will be the reflooding of the Mediterranean when the silt dam at the strait of Gibraltar breaks called the Zanclean flood. Covid like CO2 is a LIE strawman built upon an INCONVENIENT truth. The Baby Boomers who were born en mass 75 years ago are starting to die from the usual suspects of seasonal FLu/Pneumonia and old age. The covidiot mask of the BEAST is just a pretext for the final solution Vaccine of the beast. No Buying or Selling with out the mask/mark of the beast. Revelations 13 16-18. This has all happened before some 12,000 years ago. Jesus loved all races because there is only one race the HUMAN race with only one minority the INDIVIDUAL human. Your being divided to be conquered by the DNA family.

[@moodist1er]

Jesus was a lizard people

[@12gcoordinatespanther16]

Yeah, 88th comment. Let there be rainy days and Mondays.

[@davidhoogendyke2774]

It's too bad the Penn has to stoop to sensaltionalism in its lecture series to draw a crowd. The Bible nuts would love this for sure!.

[@Vinczekozo]

Just a little observation : Noahs flood is a little bath in comparasion of Younger Dryas Event at the end of Quaternar 12.9ky, great mamifers and so on , Shame you stupid Academia , look at Kosmographia with Randall Carlson .

[@seanh4841]

He always find it funny how a lot of academia just close their ears and eyes, I'm a huge fan of Bertrand Russell, and from what I gather he was no fan of academic straight jackets.

[@billybatson8657]

I agree with a lot of what Randall Carlson says, but "academia" MUST follow the facts, otherwise it loses it's credulity. Get your credentials in a science, lay out a set of facts that can't be denied, and your idea will be accepted. I hate it as much as you do, and I personally believe that there was probably a cataclysm that ended the younger dryas around 9000BC (ironically the same time Plato claimed Atlantis was destroyed, which I lean towards believing probably existed although not even close to the way that Edgar Cayce claimed), but just assuming something is so doesn't make it so.

[@sess678]

You must be kidding, Noah's flood a little bath? According to the bible the whole earth surface was covered with water suggesting it killed all people (except 8 people i think) and land animals except the ones God told Noah to bring inside the ark. It erased all the knowledge of the antedeluvian period left us with almost zero understanding of preflood period. As a result of the great flood, whole cities that existed in the antedeluvian period are now covered under water, ice or earth. Evironmental conditions were totally different in the preflood age including the water canopy above earth that filiterrd harmful uv rays and contributed to a uniform wamer tropical climate around the whole earth, a greenhouse effect. There was also a lot more land mass (some say 50%land 50% ocean), greater atmospheric pressure, greater concentratiom of oxygen in the atmosphere these are some of the factors which contributef to humams having 8-9x (ateast) longer lifespans, larger animals, greater biodiversity and lush vegetation covering the entire earth but suddenly everything changed due to Noah's flood and you call that a little bath.

[@whoudealwit]

After the Great Flood the first civilization was Babel according to the Bible. This was a time when everyone spoke the same language. Plus in Babel at this time the different families that make up many races occupied this land. But what is always suppressed is the fact Nimrod was the king of this first civilization of Babel after the Great Flood. Nimrod was a black man being a cushite and the son of Cush. The bible also shows us Cush's brother Mizraim was the progenitor of the Egyptians. After the Great Flood the bible documents 30 families descended from Ham. Shem has 26 families documented in the bible. Japeth the progenitor of Europeans has only 14 tribes documented. All 3 of Noah's sons was progenitors of mellinated people. Noah's sons had to be men of color to produce people of color. Which means Noah had to be a man of color.

[@seanh4841]

@@whoudealwit more BS from the great book of lies and mendacity

[@hanonomiri]

What is now iraq.... Says The ENGLISH man... 😜 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

[@zigavojska1672]

this person does not know the words i dont know, he is like he wants to impress a girl on the date

[@davidwatson2399]

What ?

[@eavyeavy2864]

"Finally 2020 going to end" End of 2020:

[@nibiruresearch]

Which flood? The biggest misunderstanding about our past is that history does not follow a gradual path. A cycle of natural disasters is affecting the earth and its inhabitants in a severe way. These disasters are best known for a huge flood. As an effect of these recurring disasters, civilizations come and go in a fixed schedule. Four civilizations live a 'short' period of time and remain simple. One civilization lives much longer and becomes more numerous, educated and skilled. At the end of their existence they are even higher developed than our civilization today. They disappeared because of the next recurring, thus predictable natural disaster. To tell a future civilization that they existed, they left all kind of messages carved in stone or clay and they built the Great Pyramid and other hard stone constructions worldwide. Between them and us are again four low developed civilizations thus the oldest constructions are made with the highest quality a a very long time ago. To learn much more about the cycle of recurring floods, the recreation of civilizations and its timeline and ancient high technology, read the eBook: "Planet 9 = Nibiru". You can read it on every computer, tablet or smartphone. Search: invisible nibiru 9

[@garyjaensch7143]

Of All the flood storys ( 200) only one actually has an ark that is proven seaworthy, the storys in this video, have an ark that was a cube and six storys high, has anyone seen a ship like this go by? Cambridge University studies show that Australian Aborigines languages are only 4000 years old, and the Sahara and Antartica were covered in massive amounts of vegetation and trees around 4300 years ago, meaning oxygen and co2 levels were much higher then, ( meaning uniformitarian principles are clearly false) And those who say that the higher co2 levels were millions of years ago are talking absurd things, 30 year old rocks from the Mt St. Helens got dated up to 2 million years old, ( see Dr Steve Austin’s work on Mt St. Helens) and as dinosaur bones are found with carbon 14, collagen blood vessels and other substances, makes an absolute mockery of evolution theory, ( Watch the “ is Genesis history movie). The real mystery is why catholic, Anglican, Muslim universities, natural history museums, and Smithsonian are spending billions of dollars on such absurd theory’s as evolution, the answer may lie in why are the pope and leader of Anglican Church praising Islam, when Islam Denys the most important precept of the Bible,Islam says Jesus was not crucified!!!

[@yayhay7822]

yes he wasn’t “crucified” because God actually loved him, why would he let him be murdered by these savages? I would never believe he was left to die that way, and why we as followers, are supposed thank him for dying temporarily in such a meaningless way?

[@garyjaensch7143]

@@yayhay7822go and watch how quickly strata formed in the great flood on Creation Research channel, and go see also how wide apart Carboniferous fossils are found in same strata thousands of Km apart! I’m sure you can show no evident evidence that Jesus wasn’t crucified, but there is massive evident evidence for the book that says he was, thousand times more than any other historical documents!! You will need to read the Bible like a workman to understand these verses! Isaiah 45:7 “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” Psalms 66:5 “Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.” Jesus was a son of man, and the Son of God