18 Surprising Things You Didn't Know About the Noah’s Ark Story, & the Russel Crowe Film!-SliderPhoto

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Over the past hundred years or so, archaeologists, scientists, anthropologists, and Christian leaders have worked to make sense and find evidence of the story of Noah’s Ark. As recently as this year, a British scholar discovered a 4,000 cuneiform tablet from what is now Iraq, which contains a story similar to the biblical account of Noah’s Ark. There is mention of a divine flood, and a sole survivor on an ark, who takes all the animals on board to preserve them. The tablet even includes the famous “two-by-two” phrase to describe how the animals—one male and one female of each species—boarded the ark.