Euphrates

Post-flood

Canaanites

2 Kings 23:29 – "In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates.

He describes how Cyrus diverted the Euphrates River, allowing his troops to enter the city and capture it.

He attributes the city's decline to the shifting of the Euphrates River and the rise of other cities, such as Seleucia, which drew away inhabitants and resources.

Ignatius Donnelly

The Deluge of the Chaldeans

"'The town of Shurippak, a town which thou knowest, is situated on the Euphrates--it was ancient, and in it [men did not honor] the gods.

The fact that the scene of the Deluge is located on the Euphrates proves nothing, for we will see hereafter that almost every nation had its especial mountain on which, according to its traditions, the ark rested; just as every Greek tribe had its own particular mountain of Olympos.

The team used magnetic imaging to identify structures that corresponded to descriptions from the Epic of Gilgamesh, such as garden structures and burial sites near the Euphrates River.

The tomb was reportedly located in the floodplain of the Euphrates River, matching the descriptions of Gilgamesh's burial site in the ancient epic.

Canaanite Pantheon

Asherah

He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they aroused the Lord’s anger by making Asherah poles."

According to “The Debate between Bird and Fish,” water for human consumption did not exist until Enki, lord of wisdom, created the Tigris and Euphrates and caused water to flow into them from the mountains.

This is followed by the creation of humans, wild animals, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, marshlands, vegetation, and domesticated animals.

“The Creation of Humankind,” a bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian story also known as KAR 4, begins after the separation of heaven and earth and the establishment of features like the Tigris, Euphrates, and canals.

The 4,000-year-old Sumerian epic poem Gilgamesh describes Lilith (there called Lillake) as building a house in a huluppu or willow tree that had grown on the banks of the Euphrates River since the days of Creation.

The Huluppu Tree: A willow tree (or huluppu tree) is said to have been planted by the goddess Inanna on the banks of the Euphrates River.

The Anunnaki established several laboratories on Earth, referred to as Gardens, with the primary one located in the Eden region of the Middle East, near the Euphrates River.

The main was in Eden, an area of the Middle East, near the Euphrates river.

375) is antiquity, beginning with the rise of the high civilizations in the river oases of the lower Nile and between the Euphrates and Tigris where man develops into historical existence.

The rich soil of the Tigris-Euphrates river valley was a result of natural fertilization, and ancient farmers likely observed the benefits of this natural process and started using manure intentionally.

And then dug out the Euphrates.[ ] in the deep[ ] they set up[ ] the Apsu[ ] of the land[ ] inside it[ ] raised its top[ ] of all the mountainsThey were counting the years of loads;[ ] the great marsh,They were counting the years of loads.For 3,6oo years they bore the excess,Hard work, night and day.They groaned and blamed each other,Grumbled over the masses of excavated soil: 'Let us confront our [ ] the chamberlain,And get him to relieve us of our hard work!Come, let us carry [the Lord (?)],The counsellor of gods, the warrior, from hisdwelling.Come, let us carry [Ellil],The counsellor of gods, the warrior, from hisdwelling.'Then Alia made his voice heardAnd spoke to the gods his brothers, (gap of about 8 lines)

Matias de Stefano

Enclosed garden

And the fourth river is Euphrates.

For thousands of years the Ur-Shatt (a confluence of the Tigris-Euphrates Rivers) provided fresh water to the Gulf, as it flowed through the Strait of Hormuz into the Gulf of Oman. Bathymetric data suggests there were two palaeo-basins in the Persian Gulf.