CULTURE: Late Babylonian. DATE: ca. 350–50 B.C. LANGUAGE: Akkadian. A trilingual inscription discovered at Bisitun Pass in Iran was an early key to deciphering cuneiform script. Today ...
A Babylonian retelling of Noah and the Ark on ... but with fewer gods. Translated the cuneiform script 'ina lilâti ušaznanakkunūši šamūt kibāti' reads along the lines of 'at dawn there ...
It is only seen on one other cuneiform tablet, which describes an ark built by the ancient Babylonian version of Noah. The Ark eventually crashes on the other side of a mountain beyond the Bitter ...