The dam—the Ilısu—is now almost complete, and the flooding could start anytime in the next year. Leyla Sonkuş picks grape leaves on the Plain of Harran in southern Turkey, not far from the ...

Where it was found: Nineveh (also known as Kouyunjik), an ancient Assyrian city in Upper Mesopotamia (present ... The tablet ...

After God shuts them in, the flood begins, with rain for 40 days and 40 nights. This is the first time the Bible will ...