When the tablets were found of the story of Gilgamesh by Mr. Rawlson, he did not have

any idea what he was looking at, but he knew that it was old and valuable for History.

George Smith on the other hand was fascinated by the tablets and he began to study the

writing on them. Mr. Smith found out that he could read parts of the language on the

tablets and began to translate as much as he could of these tablets. While he was

translating the Tablet 11, he was sure that he found the story of Noah and the Flood. I t

was so identical to the Flood in the Bible, everyone that knew about the tablets, became

excited. When everything was translated though they discovered that it was not the story

of the Flood in the Bible instead it was a story of a young man traveling around the

country to find eternal life. He encounter a man (Utnapishtim) who told of a story about

the Flood he had witness and the adventures that had happen. What is hard to believe is

the fact that Gilgamesh's time was 5000 years before the Bible. Could this possibly mean

that the story has been handed down from one generation to another, for so long, that

people incorporated the story into the Bible when

return. In Utnapishtim's story he first released a dove and later it was a raven that did

it was first written? If this is true, then

made immortal by the gods. Noah remained human and died at the age of 950.

seems as thought God wants to destroy the evil of mankind but also wishes for the just

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