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Mediterranean Erosion Discovery Confirms Ancient Flood Myth—And Could Explain Mass Animal Migrations
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 ...
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Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life
When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...
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Gazan Ark: Reproductive violence and the right to life and death
A recent UN report refers to “reproductive violence”; Israel targeting women, their existential and institutional means of ...
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Fifteen Questions: Martin Puchner on Philosopher Chatbots, AI Writing, and the Future
This is everything from the Epic of Gilgamesh, which is the first time this apocalyptic story of the flood — that then appears in the Hebrew Bible, in the Christian Bible, in the Quran ...
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The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
He also clears up a puzzle in the flood story that forms part of Gilgamesh, where the gods seem to ordain an obviously unwieldy square ark; a round shape, like a square, is as broad as it is long and ...
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AR6: The Waterspout of the Chaldeans
An understanding is emerging that there really was a Great Flood. About 2,900 ... the Deluge of Gilgamesh, the Chaldean inscriptions from ancient Uruk, the Great Destruction of Deucalion in Greek ...