They put the behemoths in the hold along with the rhinos, the hippos and the elephants. It was a sensible decision to use ...

They compare myths like Noah’s Ark, Gilgamesh, and global flood legends, discussing their possible historical origins. From lost underwater cities to precisely carved megaliths, the conversation ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

A recent UN report refers to “reproductive violence”; Israel targeting women, their existential and institutional means of ...

First, in the 1870s, George Smith identified two pre-biblical accounts of a hero divinely commissioned to build an ark and so save the denizens of the world from a cosmic flood. Reading The Epic of ...

An understanding is emerging that there really was a Great Flood. About 2,900 years BCE ... Like old photos slowly unfading before our eyes, the Biblical deluge, the Deluge of Gilgamesh, the Chaldean ...