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and the earth" . Around 1700 BC, at the time of the Babylonian Hammura-
bi, a year is marked as being that in which occurred the incident of "the
ruining of the city of Eshnunna with a deluge".
In the tenth century BC, at the time of the ruler Nabu-mukin-apal, a de-
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luge occurred in the city of Babylon. After ‘Isa (Jesus) (as), in the seventh,
eighth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries, important deluges took pla-
ce in the region. In the twentieth century, the same happened in 1925,
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1930 and 1954. It is clear that the region has always been subject to the
disaster of flooding and, as indicated in the Qur’an, it is very likely that a
massive flood could have destroyed an entire people.

An illustration depicting the Flood at the time of Nuh (as).

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