Flood Tablet
c. 700-600 BC · Resource
A cuneiform tablet from Nineveh bearing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, including a flood story strikingly similar to Noah's Ark. Its 1872 translation by George Smith caused a sensation.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 650 BCE
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Homer's Iliad composed (750 BCE)
- Homer's Odyssey composed (700 BCE)
- Iliad and Odyssey composed (750 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire founded (550 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Babylonian Captivity of the Jews (586 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Croesus introduces the first bimetallic coinage (550 BCE)