Babylonian tablet shows how Noah’s ark could have been constructed

And it didn’t look anything like the ark we’re told of. Plus, of course, it never existed.

The ark is a huge circular coracle, 3,600 square metres in dimension or two-thirds the size of a football pitch, made like a giant rope basket strengthened with wooden ribs, and waterproofed with bitumen inside and out. This was a giant version of a craft which the Babylonians knew very well, Finkel pointed out, in daily use up to the late 20th century to transport people and animals across rivers.

It didn’t exist because you can’t build a coracle that large. Science + math = engineering.

theguardian.com