Wellcome Collection’s enthralling show explores man’s search for water, capturing the precious resource’s terrible lack and ...

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

For more than a century, people have sought the precise location of Noah’s Ark. Archaeologists say it’s a fool’s errand.

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.

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.

An ancient, epic poem from Mesopotamian mythology that is considered one of the earliest works of literature in human history. This story is centred around the legendary king of Uruk, who is ...

In Gilgamesh’s world, giants are central, a detail Wayne links to Genesis 6:4 and the concept of a second incursion of fallen angels after the flood. Wayne further notes that the proof of underwater ...

Contrary to what is sometimes claimed, the ancient Egyptians did have a flood myth that is clearly analogous to those seen in other cultures.

As he began to reconstruct the body of the epic leading up to the Flood narrative, Smith sought a unifying theme in the saga of the hero Gilgamesh's adventures.

The Genesis account provides incredible details as well as some key evidence that might help us arrive at an approximate date for the Flood. In fact, a historical view of Genesis, including the ...

A few years later, John Webb theorised that Noah had lived in China before the flood. Noah’s story looks like a creative retelling of the much older flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh It was during ...