They put the behemoths in the hold along with the rhinos, the hippos and the elephants. It was a sensible decision to use ...

You know all those ancient flood myths, Noah’s Ark, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Atlantis sinking into the sea? Well, turns out they might not just be myths after all. Scientists have found actual ...

Noah, cautioned by God, constructs an ark to protect his family and pairs of creatures from a flood intended to purify the Earth. Mesopotamian Mythology: The Epic of Gilgamesh also features ...

This was probably the greatest ever loss of life from British weather. In the great flood of 1872, more than 100 square miles of land were flooded between October and the following March ...

You could say the study of mythology is...flooded with them. Sorry. We'll be looking at floods from Mesopotamia from the Epic of Gilgamesh, and a flood story from the Zoroastrian tradition.