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[PDF] The Chaldean Account of Genesis, Containing the description of the creation, the fall of man, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the times of the patriarchs

About: This book contains parallel accounts of some of the Biblical stories, such as the great flood and the building of the tower of Babylon.

Author: George Smith

George was an English Assyriologist who is best know for pioneering many archaeological digs in the Ancient Near East and Levant. He was the one who first discovered the lost take of Gilgamesh.

Apprenticed as a bank note engraver at the age of 14, Smith educated himself in the young science of Assyriology and became adept in deciphering the cuneiform tablets from Nineveh that began arriving at the British Museum, London, about 1861. His publication of several essays on cuneiform characters of uncertain meaning attracted attention, and soon he became an assistant in the museum’s department of Oriental antiquities.

While preparing inscriptions for publication, he was startled to find part of a description of a flood. His report of this discovery prompted The Daily Telegraph of London to sponsor an expedition to find the missing fragment needed to complete the deluge account. In May 1873, on the fifth day of digging at Nineveh, Smith found the fragment. His Chaldean Account of Genesis (1876) became one of the best-selling books of its time.^[1]Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "George Smith." Encyclopedia Britannica, August 15, 2022. https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Smith-British-Assyriologist.