British Museum: Prototype for Noah's Ark was round
But forget all those images of a long vessel with a pointy bow — the original Noah’s Ark, new research suggests, was round.
A recently deciphered 4,000-year-old clay
tablet from ancient Mesopotamia — modern-day Iraq — reveals striking new
details about the roots of the Old Testament tale of Noah. It tells a
similar story, complete with detailed instructions for building a giant
round vessel known as a coracle — as well as the key instruction that
animals should enter “two by two.”
The tablet went on display at the British
Museum on Friday, and soon engineers will follow the ancient
instructions to see whether the vessel could actually have sailed.
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