The Book of Enoch seems to have been written centuries before a great destruction we call The Flood. It contains no records after such a flood but only predictions of it; numerous graphic predictions. It therefore seems to have been completed prior to any such cataclysmic catastrophe occurring; completed including any later editorial comments. So did such an event occur and if so, when? Archaeology has the answer. The Sumerian King Lists are records written by Sumerians after the flood which record that flood and record which kings reigned before it and which kings reigned after it. They record the cities from which they reigned. They notably highlight that the capital city at the time of the flood was Shurappak and the first capital city after the flood was Kish. So the city of Shuruppak in ancient Sumer (now in Iraq) is a focal point from which to see the archaeology of this flood recorded by the Sumerian King List. Does it show arcgaeological evidence of such a flood as is recorded in the Sumerian King Lists? There is a flood deposit layer in the archaeology of the site of the city, a site now called Tell Fara, and it coincides with the time and archaeological sequence of the flood recorded in the Sumerian King Lists (in agreement with the Book of Enoch and Genesis). The period before the time this flood layer was deposited is the Jamdet Nasr Period and early Fara Period. The archaeology above this flood layer is from the Early Dynastic Periods. So this is entirely consistent with the Sumerian King Lists. Archaeologists very cautiously describe this flood as a local river flood. Probably this is related to embarrasing claims made by early archaeologist of Sumerian archaeology, Sir Leonard Woolley, who jumped to conclude that a similar but probably older flood layer in the site of ancient Sumerian city Ur was the result of the Noah flood when later that was shown to be fallacious because it was from a much earlier flood and floods of Ur were frequent where it was situated by the rivers and oft changing Persian Gulf coastline. Yet the Tell Fara flood deposits are very likely to coincide with the flood written about in the Sumerian King Lists. So it appears from archaeology of the most historic extant text of the time and the archaeology of Tell Fara that a flood did occur when predicted in the Book of Enoch and around 2600 BC between the Jemdat Nasr Period and Early Dynastic Period.
