What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform inscriptions describing an epic flood that swept through Babylon.It is ...

Among these was the Flood Tablet, deciphered by George Smith in 1872, which alerted him to the existence of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh. BRIDGEMAN/ACI Long days working with the ancient puzzle ...

It turns out this flood story is even older than Gilgamesh. That makes at least three ancient flood stories, all originating out of Mesopotamia. All are relaying very similar details.

First, in the flood story of Gilgamesh, the hero Utnapishtim and his wife survive the flood through obedience to the divine, and in return, they are granted immortality.

The podcast dives into some of history’s most enduring mysteries—Atlantis, the Great Flood, and ancient technologies. The ...

The Gilgamesh Flood story is known from clay tablets that date back around 3,000 years, the Biblical Flood was about 5,000 years ago.

In his grief, Gilgamesh goes in search of his ancestor Utnapishtim, who survived a flood of biblical proportions, in the hopes of learning the secret of immortality.

The Epic Of Gilgamesh - written by a Middle Eastern scholar 2,500 years before the birth of Christ - commemorated the life of the ruler of the city of Uruk, from which Iraq gets its name. Now, a ...

Scholars have struggled to identify fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh — one of the world’s oldest literary texts. Now A.I. has brought an “extreme acceleration” to the field.