Epic of Gilgamesh – The Sumerian Great Flood

In 1872, George Smith, a researcher at the British museum, laboriously putting together jigsaw like pieces of the Babylonian tablets found at Ninevah. One night, Smith came across a large fragment with only one side legible. He was stunned to read the story of a man who built an ark to escape a devastating flood. Who brought on boards animals of all types. who sent out birds to see if the water had receded. Smith had stumbled across one chapter of a much longer tale, the Epic of Gilgamesh.