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

Later, Utu-napishtim tells Gilgamesh of his experience ... much older cuneiform tablets with similar flood stories that ...

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 ...

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.

Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century, shattered clay tablets covered in indecipherable writing held one of the world’s greatest treasures. Locked within the characters lay the Epic of ...

It is also a source of much conjecture, for the hero king on whom the story is based, Gilgamesh is quoted as being two-thirds god and one-third human. In the poem, Gilgamesh is described as the ...