may 10, 2750 BC - The Epic of Gilgamesh
Description:
The oldest known epic that tells the tale of a world-wide flood, paralleling the story of Noah's Ark.These Babylonian tablets, written in Akkadian, were discovered in 1853 during an excavation of a buried library at Ninevah in 1839.
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Date:
may 10, 2750 BC
Now
~ 4778 years ago