Pictures From the Oriental Institute
August 5, 2008 2:41 pm Bible history
This is the Babylonian Flood story as told in the Epic of Gilgamesh. The third tablet is dated about 1800 B.C. This flood account contains remarkable parallels to the flood account in Genesis. Wycliffe Dictionary of Biblical Archeology relates that a small but important fragment of this epic was accidentally discovered in 1955 in the debris of the Oriental Institute campaigns at Megiddo in Palestine. Twelve tablets were discovered in 1853 by Hormuzd Rassam among the cunneiform texts from the library of Ashurbanipal in Ninevah. (268).
The figure to the left is a depiction of Gilgamesh.