Amateur (albeit incredibly notorious) theology/anthropology scholar here.

Has it been put forth amongst you professional anthropologists that the stories of Sumerian culture (particularly the Enuma Elish) seem to provide metaphorical corroboration of events that closely mirror what we see in geological record?

I for one am particularly interested in the possibility that the tale of Tiamat's destruction was describing the great cataclysm that ended the Dinosaurs' reign on earth.

The implications are immense from that particular interpretation of the text.