Clay tablets with cuneiform writing of the Enuma Elish Story of Creation By about the time of Hammurabi, about 1700 BC, people in the Babylonian Empire were beginning to write down this story about [...]
Who was Enlil? This is what one of the tablets that was found in the Assyrian king's library looks like. This one tells the story of the Flood. The Sumerian god [...]
Breughel's medieval painting of the Tower of Babel From the Bible story: According to the Book of Genesis in the Bible, after the Flood people again began to get wicked. Noah's Flood [...]
