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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Babylonian Tablet ‘Confirms’ Noah’s Ark
Seeking confirmation of the Noah’s Ark story? Look no further than Babylonian cuneiform tablets. One was discovered as far back as 1872 that pre-dated the Bible with its own version of the Ark story.
Now a tablet has arrived at the British Museum that actually describes how to build the ark, according to Irving Finkel, who works at the museum’s Middle East department. The palm-sized tablet dates back to
1900-1700BC, is written in Semitic Babylonian, and has exactly 60 lines of text, writes Finkel in the Telegraph. It also explains that the ark built by Artra-hasis—the Noah-like figure who took instructions from the god Enki—was completely round.
“Draw out the boat that you will make,” Artra-hasis is told, “on a circular plan.” That contradicts our usual Ark image but does makes sense, because ancient Mesopotamian round boats—called coracles—were hard to sink and hard to steer, and who needs steering during a world-wide flood?
The boat was made of coiled, waterproofed rope with a base area of 38,750 square feet, about an acre in all, according to the tablet—which then reads, “and the wild animal[s of the st]ep[pe], two each, two by two.” While this supports the Ark story, Salon takes a dig at fundamentalists who believe the Ark housed “baby dinosaurs.”
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