'MESOPOTAMIAN accounts have garnered the most discussion since they are culturally closer to the BIBLICAL material than any of the other non-SCRIPTURAL narratives. The most famous mesopotamian FLOOD account is the Babylonian version, found in the LIBRARY of the ASSYRIAN king ASHURBANIPAL (seventh century BC) as part of the larger epic of Gilgamesh........An AKKADIAN account dating to around 1600 B.C recounts basically the same tale as that embedded in the Babylonian epic .......An even earlier SUMERIAN version, kwown as the ERIDU GENESIS, contain the stories of creation....,along with an account of the great FLOOD.......' -Archaeological Study BIBLE published by Zondervan page 13...GOD bless you