A guide to Ark-building
Make it circular.
Relief copy of a panel from Lorenzo Ghiberti’s The Gates of Paradise showing the story of Noah
Relic reveals Noah’s ark was circular
That they processed aboard the enormous floating wildlife collection two-by-two is well known. Less familiar, however, is the possibility that the animals Noah shepherded on to his ark then went round and round inside.
According to newly translated instructions inscribed in ancient Babylonian on a clay tablet telling the story of the ark, the vessel that saved one virtuous man, his family and the animals from god’s watery wrath was not the pointy-prowed craft of popular imagination but rather a giant circular reed raft.
The now battered tablet, aged about 3,700 years, was found somewhere in the Middle East by Leonard Simmons, a largely self-educated Londoner who indulged his passion for history while serving in the RAF from 1945 to 1948 . . . in the Guardian.
Listen to Flood Tablet in BBC Radio 4’s A History of the World in 100 Objects.
Some local psychics insist that Noah’s Ark landed in the Philippines, specifically, Mount Arayat. “It’s the biblical Mount Ararat,” they says. Riiight.
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