Think about the similarities between the flood story in The Epic of Gilgamesh and the story of Noah’s Ark in the Old Testament.
For your initial post, start a new thread and answer the following questions:
Which features appear in both stories? Are there any differences? If so, what are they?
Why do you think these stories are so similar?
From a historian’s perspective, why do the existence of these similarities matter?
Your response should consist of at least two paragraphs of several sentences each and be around 250 words in length.
