The Atrahasis Epic was a story writted in the early 2nd mellennium B.C. deriving a people called the Akkadian. It is a cosmological epic that depicts the creation and early human history, including a flood. This can be a supportive evidence to Genesis 1-9 Akkadian language city of Akkad or Agad Akkadian Empire Sargon of Akkad This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The epic of Atrahasis, written in Akkadian, can be dated by colophon (scribal identification) to the reign of Hammurabi's great grandson, Ammi-saduga (1646-1626 BC), and it continued to be copied into the first millennium.
In the epic, Enlil, the senior deity of the pantheon, plots to reduce the number of humans, whose noisy vitality was such that Enlil could not sleep.
Atrahasis, his family, and his possessions, as well as animals and birds, ride out the flood that lasted seven days and seven nights in a reed boat coated with bitumen.
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