Here is the Bosphorus and Istanbul, one of the Gates of the World.
A mysterious site in which some scientists read the history of the deluge.

On the left, Europe; on the right, Asia.
The term “Bosphorus” comes from the Greek “passage of the cow,” referring not to the strait itself but to the land bridge that once connected the two continents, during the Copper Age.

There is a scientific theory linking the Bosphorus to the myth of the deluge.

7,500 years ago, the basin of the Black Sea contained only a small freshwater lake, with particularly fertile land that could have allowed populations to settle there.

Then the natural dam broke, and an extraordinary event occurred: the Mediterranean poured into the basin of the Black Sea below. With the roar of a cataclysm, a monstrous torrent of seawater, at a rate of 50 cubic kilometers per hour, struck the land.

The equivalent of 200 Niagara Falls rushing through the Bosphorus Strait every day. Imaginez la mer Noire s’élevant quotidiennement de 15 cm. Une gigantesque inondation avançant de 10 km par semaine, dans un grondement assourdissant sur 100 km.

In the 1990s, American researchers, Ryan and Pitman from Columbia University, analyzed shells and demonstrated that the filling of the Black Sea occurred around 5600 BC and lasted less than two years!

Some believe that this deluge triggered a massive diaspora and accelerated the spread of agriculture in Europe. A hundred years later, the plow and irrigation appeared in the Caucasus, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine.

From there, it’s not a stretch to interpret the origin of the flood myth and even Atlantis.

Describing millennia later, the legend recounts that Byzantium was founded on these shores around -700 by Greek colonists. The Persian Empire of Darius quickly seized the colony in the 6th century, constraining its development. The city then became Constantinople, the seat of the Christian Emperor Constantine.
Then Istanbul, the Sublime Porte, capital of the Ottoman Empire.

However, the city is still located on a highly active seismic fault, and there’s an 85% probability of a major earthquake occurring before 2025.

The population of Turkey has lived with this threat forever.
Let’s hope the city will live for many more millennia.