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 ...

The catastrophe proves that today’s most advanced civilizations respond to fear the same way people did during the Bronze Age ...

Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action Hero A self-taught scholar was responsible for finding the world’s first epic myth hidden among broken clay tablets in the British Museum.

Similar to the Gilgamesh and Genesis flood stories, a hero named Atrahasis is commanded to build an ark and to prepare for a devastating flood.

While the Gilgamesh Flood story has been recounted by several clay tablets dating back over 3,000 years, the Biblical Flood is said to have been about 5,000 years ago.

And I made these structures as thick parsiktu vessel,'' Dr Finkel. 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.

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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.

Archaeologists in Iraq believe they have found the tomb of King Gilgamesh, the subject of the world's oldest "book".

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.

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.