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

Based on other ancient Babylonian scriptures the word parsiktu typically helps to explain the size of a vessel needed to survive the Great Flood. Another passage also appears to show a path to ...

The word “parsiktu” is meant to help explain the size of a vessel needed to survive the Great Flood, based on other ancient Babylonian scripture. Another passage is believed to show a path and ...

Dr. Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script at the British Museum, led the team that unlocked the ...

The term is known to feature on only one other surviving Babylonian tablet, a tablet describing the boat which survived the Great Flood. The translated text on the reverse of the tablet describes ...

[to] see something that is thick as a parsiktu-vessel.' The word 'parsiktu' has been found on other ancient Babylonian tablets, specifically to explain the size of a boat needed to survive the Great ...

The word 'parsiktu' has been found on other ancient Babylonian tablets, specifically to explain the size of a boat needed to survive the Great Flood. Researchers followed the instructions ...

According to the Babylonian myth, the god Ea sends a flood that wipes out all of humanity except for Utnapishtim and his family, who construct an ark filled with animals, much like the Biblical story.

In addition, there was mention of certain people, such as Utnapishtim, king of the ancient city of Shuruppak in southern Iraq, who was said to have survived the great Babylonian flood by building ...

In the Babylonian version, the god Ea sent a flood to Earth to destroy all of humanity with the exception of one family.

The word ‘parsiktu’ has been found on other ancient Babylonian tablets, specifically to explain the size of a boat needed to survive the Great Flood. Researchers followed the instructions ...