Shuruppak Flood Layer

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The spade gives a humbler witness: in the old Sumerian cities the archaeologists found thick bands of river-laid silt from great floods of the Tigris and Euphrates — including at Shuruppak, the very city the king-lists name as the home of Ziusudra, the flood-hero behind Utnapishtim. A real flood-layer beneath the flood-king's town. — archaeology