The tablet describes how the gods sent a flood down to destroy ... In other words, the Epic of Gilgamesh may have been the ...

with many of the key elements similar to the Noah story in the biblical Book of Genesis: The seventh-century B.C. Flood Tablet, shown here, unlocked the Epic of Gilgamesh for Smith. Overwhelmed ...

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 ...

How did a story like Noah's Flood, so ancient ... that the Flood story was woven by storytellers into the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the first great epic of world literature.

An adaptation of the Epic of ... and dies, Gilgamesh becomes anxious about his own impending death and goes on a quest to seek out Utnapishim, legendary survivor of the great flood and holder ...