{"id":215612,"date":"2024-03-21T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T10:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/sunken-lands-review-heeding-the-flood-warnings-of-history\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:15","slug":"sunken-lands-review-heeding-the-flood-warnings-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/sunken-lands-review-heeding-the-flood-warnings-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunken Lands review: Heeding the flood warnings of history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, UK,\u00a0flooded in January.<\/p>\n

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Gareth E. Rees (Elliott and Thompson)<\/strong><\/p>\n

FOR many people, the most famous story of a great flood is that of Noah and his ark filled with animals, two by two. But it isn\u2019t the only one. There are more than 2000 myths about flooding in cultures around the world, from tales about the lost city of Atlantis to the epic Mahabharata<\/i> from India and the legend of the submerged kingdom of Cantre\u2019r Gwaelod in west Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFloods linger deep in our cultural memory,\u201d writes Gareth E. Rees\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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