3,000-Year-Old Flood Myth That Inspired The Bible`s May Have Been `Earliest Example Of Fake News`
(World News Science)

The flood story you may be most familiar with is probably Noah`s Ark, but it`s far from the only tale of a great flood sent by a god to destroy a civilization. According to one early flood myth, the Babylonian god Ea sent a flood that wipes out all of humanity except for Uta-napishti (also known as Utnapishtim) and his family, who safely stow away on an ark full of animals while everybody else drowns. Sounds familiar? It should do: The Babylonian story - etched on 3,000-year-old clay tablets forming part of the Epic of Gilgamesh - is thought to...