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

Researchers decipher Babylonian map showing journey to Urartu, believed to be the ark's resting place after the Great Flood.

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.

I've done it! "And I made these structures as thick parsiktu vessel." The Gilgamesh Flood story is known from several clay tablets dating back over 3,000 years. Whereas the Biblical Flood was said ...

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.

I've done it! 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 ...

It was only later that the Flood story was woven by storytellers into the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the first great epic of world literature. Smith's tablet forms the eleventh chapter of that story.

The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 27th century BC) 1 is famed as being the first corpus of epic literature known to man. It is also a source of much conjecture ...

Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, the 3,600-year-old religious text shows a section of a Sumerian poem from the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is one of the world's oldest works of literature and was ...

A federal court in the US has verified that a rare ancient artefact, known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, was legally seized by authorities. The 3,500-year-old tablet, from what is now Iraq ...