[mwaitjmp]

Yes indeed! This is really fascinating.

This comes to us via the epic of Gilgamesh[0], perhaps written around 2100 BCE.

Small extract:

“ Ea commanded Utnapishtim to demolish his house and build a boat, regardless of the cost, to keep living beings alive.

The boat must have equal dimensions with corresponding width and length and be covered over like Apsu boats.”

There is an excellent in our time episode which covers this epic, the Sumerian language and translation which I found one of the most interesting episodes they have made [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080wbrq

[pythonlion]

Dilmun[0] a ancient city contemporary to Akkadian culture in todays Bahrain was the place where that Utnapishtim was set to live forever and other similarities in mythology with Garden of Edan, although it was a great culture by itself.

Cedar Forest [1] in Lebanon was a sacred place in the ancient world and had big appearance in Gilgamesh story. the forest was famous for its premium tress to build temples in some of the cultures around and the most famous one was the legendry the temple of Solomon. also Ugarit was a city where many interesting texts were found with huge similarity for later bible story

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Forest