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Black Sea flood in reverse, is found in the writings of Diodorus of Sicily -- who passed on a sum-
mary --

The first and original inhabitants used an ancient language which was peculiar to them and of which many
words are preserved to this day in the ritual of their sacrifices. According to Diodorus, Euxinos Pontos
(the ancient greek name for the Black Sea), which at the time was a lake, became so swollen by the waters
in the rivers that flowed into it that its waters burst forth violently through a natural earthen dam out
through the outlet at the Cyanean Rocks (located at the Black Sea end of the Bosporus) and through the
Hellespont. This flood inundated a large part of the coast of Asia Minor and made no small amount of the
level part of the land of Samothrace into a sea. And this is the reason, we are told, why in later times fish-
ermen have now and then brought up in their nets the stone capitols of columns, since even cities were
covered by the inundation (Noah's Flood, p. 250).

It is evident that this tradition became confused over the centuries regarding the DIREC-
TION of the flood -- a Black Sea lake filled with water to a level well above the Aegean, bursting
through into the Bosporus and flooding the island of Samothrace is, of course, not plausible. The
Aegean Sea is connected to the world's oceans through the Mediterranean Sea and the straits of
Gibraltar, so any water flowing from the Black Sea through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles to
the Aegean would have rapidly spread out across this vast surface -- causing no appreciable rise
in the level of the Aegean. Notes Ryan and Pitman --

It seems more likely that the ancestors of these people had originally lived by the Black Sea lake shore or
in the Bosporus valley itself and had witnessed the breaching of the Bosporus dam and the rush of water
from the ocean into the Black Sea. Their fields and homes were inundated, and they fled, eventually set-
tling on Samothrace, perhaps becoming integrated with the native inhabitants. Like almost all people with
strong oral traditions, whose history is recorded in myths, they would come to identify their origins with
this island, claiming they had always lived there, that they had "sprung from the rock." So the legend of
their flood, accommodated to their presumed island origin, was INVERTED, and the water instead of
flowing into the Black Sea, was somehow remembered by them to have flowed outward, flooding their
Samothrace home (ibid., p. 251).

Egypt:

Moving now to Egypt, we are confronted by the mystery of the Sphinx. A French mathema-
tician by the name of R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz carried out some research at the Luxor Temple in
Egypt between 1937 and 1952. Schwaller's principal publications, both originally in French, were
the massive three-volume Temple de l'Homme and the Roi de la theocratie Pharaonique. In this
latter work, subsequently translated into English as Sacred Science, Schwaller made a passing
reference to tremendous floods and rains that devastated Egypt in the early times of human remem-
brance. As an afterthought, he added --

A great civilization must have preceded the vast movements of WATER that passed over Egypt, which
leads us to assume that the Sphinx already existed, sculptured in the rock of the west cliff at Giza -- that
Sphinx whose leonine body, except for the head, shows indisputable signs of WATER EROSION (Finger-
prints of the Gods, p. 419).

The Sphinx is reputed to have been built around 2,000 B.C. by Pharaoh Khafre of the Fouth
Egyptian Dynasty. However, since the beginning of dynastic times (some 500 years before Khafre)
there simply hasn't been enough rain on the Giza plateau to have caused the very extensive water
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