History of Noahs Ark
Flood stories have been a common thread in many religions across the globe. One of the stories we are most familiar with in our culture, the story of Noah's Ark, is a well known segment of the old testament, and an interesting story of how God punished the world for how corrupt it had become. God accomplished this reportedly by flooding the world, and annihilating all the creatures upon it, save for Noah and his family and a pair of each type of creature on the earth . This story, however, has roots deep in the past, some of which have only come to light with the development of new archeological techniques and technology. As more and more is found out about the era from whence this story originates, discoveries are made as to the origin of the story, what tale it was based upon, and as to the authenticity that such an event may have actually even occurred, if on a somewhat smaller scale. Based on the information available at the present time, one can make fairly confident inferences as to the root of this story. One could argue that the story of Noah's Ark was based on the Epic of Gilgamesh, and that in turn was based on older stories that were based on a real flood of the Black Sea.
Bibliography BibliographyMestel, Rosie. Directly above this was evidence of some freshwater life. It seems fairly clear that the story of Noah's Ark evolved from the Epic of Gilgamesh, with changes made to accommodate the different faith of its authors. The sudden breakdown of the land separating the Mediterranean from the Black Sea would have caused rapid flooding, the likes of which were unheard of in a majority of the world (Water would have been cascading in with the 200 times the force of Niagara Falls! ). Recent discoveries made in 1993 on the voyage taken by the Aquanaut offer fairly concrete evidence of a flood, in the Black Sea, which would have taken place at about the time as the time indicated in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Be it from other ancient scriptures or from evidence in the Earth itself, we are developing the technology and means to extract confirming (or disproving) evidence for these accounts, and our understanding over them is rapidly changing. The sudden, certainly dramatic flooding of such a seemingly innocent basin would have been totally unpredictable and equally inexplicable, and would have demanded the creation of some story to account for it. As things stand now, it appears most likely that Noah's Ark was founded on The Epic of Gilgamesh, and this was in turn created to help explain the sudden, very real flooding of the Black Sea. The aquanaut, a vessel being shared by a Russian team searching the Black Sea for fallout and an American team searching for the evidence of a flood, employed the a CHIRP (an echo-locator) and a coring pipe to gather information and even samples of the sediments at the bottom of the lake and their contents . These stories most likely evolved into stories such as the Epic of Gilgamesh. Though the story was modified to accommodate new characters, many properties of the story are similar, from small details like the creatures used as scouts to the religious purpose of the flood itself.
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