| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time |
005320 |
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In Process Record. |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
| Event |
Originally produced by PBS in 2015. |
| Summary |
In 1948, a British pilot serving in Iraq acquired a clay tablet with an intriguing, 3,700 year-old inscription. The ancient writing tells the story of how the god Enki warns a Sumerian king named Atra-Hasis of a future flood that will destroy mankind; Enki gives him instructions for building a boat to save his family and livestock. If that sounds like a familiar tale, it’s because this was one of several ancient flood traditions that, centuries later, would inspire the biblical story of Noah.. But the tablet’s inscription describes a boat very different from the traditional image of the Ark—it’s said to be circular and made of reeds. Is this nothing more than a fanciful myth? Or could such a reed boat have carried Atra-Hasis’ family of more than one hundred and his many animals? Join NOVA as a team of historians and expert boat builders investigates this fascinating flood legend and sets out to rebuild a tantalizing, ancient forerunner of the Ark.. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
History, Ancient
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Religion
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TV Series |
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Television programs
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PBS (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
1233507 Kanopy |
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