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Although Mt. Ararat in modern Turkey near the Black Sea is usually credited as the resting place of Noah's Ark, there is also a Mt. Ararat in Iran. It fits well with the notion of a tsunami from the Indian Ocean as a result of a major impact event at the beginning of recorded history.

I think that early humans were more advanced than they are commonly given credit for being. Brain capacity was as large or larger than it is today, and there is evidence of sophisticated tool making, language, and religious belief. Yet five million years ago seems too far in the past for a cultural memory to survive to be recorded in even the Old Testament.