SUMERIAN FLOOD STORY - The British Museum has put on display an amazing, 4,000-year-old Mesopotamian tablet. The tablet is full of cuneiform inscriptions and describes Noah’s Ark. Like in the Bible, but different. This tablet was discovered some years ago, but now it has been deciphered. It is a very detailed description of how to build Noah’s Ark, like a construction manual.
The amazing thing about this tablet is that it is the first time a description of Noah’s Ark was found. It has been known for a long time that the flood story is in origin a Sumerian story, but the actual description of the ark is new.
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