Hey all
This was WAY better than I expected.
This dude found a 4000 year old cuneifrom tablet that EXPLICITLY describes a story exactly as the story of Noah's Ark from the Hebrew bible, and the parallel tale of Gilgalmesh from even earlier.
What's more, the tablet describes IN DETAIL how to build the ark, the shape, length of rope, materials etc etc.
They gathered a team to build a scaled-down version of it, and tested it out.
Also, the dude is SUPER funny. One of the comments describes it "like monty python + archaeology." lol
I am most interested in this personally because I have become aware of an accumulating stack of evidence that the Great Flood story may indeed be factual.
Not only do we have multiple old stories of such an event (Noah's Ark, Epic of Gilgamesh, Plato's account of Atlantis, Native N & S American legends, etc etc)... but geology and archaeology is also repeatedly confirming the end of the ice age at approx 10,000BC, resulting in massive flooding and catastrophe.
The theory which continues to catch my attention is that civilized (perhaps even advanced) humans existed at that time, and were victims of the flood. (Destruction of Atlantis, water-erosion arguments around the Sphinx, underwater civilizations etc). But some survived, and of course would record and tell the tale. Hence these old legends.
Anyways great lecture, super smart and funny dude.
Enjoy:
This was WAY better than I expected.
This dude found a 4000 year old cuneifrom tablet that EXPLICITLY describes a story exactly as the story of Noah's Ark from the Hebrew bible, and the parallel tale of Gilgalmesh from even earlier.
What's more, the tablet describes IN DETAIL how to build the ark, the shape, length of rope, materials etc etc.
They gathered a team to build a scaled-down version of it, and tested it out.
Also, the dude is SUPER funny. One of the comments describes it "like monty python + archaeology." lol
I am most interested in this personally because I have become aware of an accumulating stack of evidence that the Great Flood story may indeed be factual.
Not only do we have multiple old stories of such an event (Noah's Ark, Epic of Gilgamesh, Plato's account of Atlantis, Native N & S American legends, etc etc)... but geology and archaeology is also repeatedly confirming the end of the ice age at approx 10,000BC, resulting in massive flooding and catastrophe.
The theory which continues to catch my attention is that civilized (perhaps even advanced) humans existed at that time, and were victims of the flood. (Destruction of Atlantis, water-erosion arguments around the Sphinx, underwater civilizations etc). But some survived, and of course would record and tell the tale. Hence these old legends.
Anyways great lecture, super smart and funny dude.
Enjoy: