Just sayin

@Coldo Sorry as geologist and an archaeologist, I respectfully disagree with your rebuttal. The civilizations were not wiped out, which is true. But major disruption dud occur significantly enough to appear in their culture histories. Akso, again there is geological evidence fir a worldwide eusraric sea level change that was severe enough to impact civilizations within the impact zone.

@t1nick Sea level change, is a huge difference from an biblical flood. That's what i was talking about. No major civilisation at that time reported an significant impact on their lifestyle.

@Coldo. Stories get their origination in actual events. Just like Noahs proverbial flood, they get embellished, exaggerated, and modified according to the culture and the impact felt. I am no subscriber to Noah or his displeasure cruise, my point was to show that culture stories are often a reflection of some real event. (E.g. stories surrounding eclipse, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, etc).

If a culture is at a developmental stage and their entire population disrupted, and their city buried under 100 ft of water, it doesn't matter whether it took two years or two days to effect, this becomes a defining event in their lives. It is often capures as a tale, myth, parable.

@t1nick Agree 100% The main evidence of an flood (as far as i can establish) is in the southern hemisphere.Where Tsunamis, Large volcanic eruptions etc are more common.Myths tend to have some factual basis,but as you say they tend to be exaggerated out of proportion. Atlantis was reputed to be situated in the Atlantic, west of the pillars of Hercules, the straights of Gibraltar in modern terms.Some sort of event undoubtedly happened in the area,whether it not Atlantis was some sort of advanced civilisation has also become an myth.