# Canonical recap data for Gilgamesh Flood Narrative Era (1800)
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slug: gilgamesh-flood
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1800/gilgamesh-flood"
title: Gilgamesh Flood Narrative Era
subtitle: Sumerian flood myths preserved in cuneiform literature possibly reference actual catastrophic inundation events in Mesopotamian river valleys.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1800-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1800
decade: 1800
country:
name: Iraq
slug: iraq
summaryShort: |-
  The Gilgamesh flood myth is a partial narrative of the Gilgamesh Epic. It is one of three Mesopotamian flood myths alongside the one included in the Eridu Genesis, and an episode from the Atra-Hasis Epic. 
  Many scholars believe that the Gilgamesh flood myth was added to Tablet XI in the "standard version" of the Gilgam
summaryLong: |-
  The Gilgamesh flood myth is a partial narrative of the Gilgamesh Epic. It is one of three Mesopotamian flood myths alongside the one included in the Eridu Genesis, and an episode from the Atra-Hasis Epic. 
  Many scholars believe that the Gilgamesh flood myth was added to Tablet XI in the "standard version" of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who used the flood story, which is described in the Epic of Atra-Hasis. A short reference to the flood myth is also present in the much older Sumerian Gilgamesh poems, from which the later Babylonian versions drew much of their inspiration and subject matter.
heroImageUrl: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/British_Museum_Flood_Tablet_1.jpg/1280px-British_Museum_Flood_Tablet_1.jpg"
heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "Gilgamesh flood myth"
importance: 73
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth"
  title: Gilgamesh flood myth
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- disaster
metaDescription: The Gilgamesh flood myth is a partial narrative of the Gilgamesh Epic. It is one of three Mesopotamian flood myths alongside the one included in the Eridu Genes
wikidataQid: Q955641
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260530062747/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth"
  capturedAt: 2026-05-30
  label: Gilgamesh flood myth
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth"
taxonomy:
domain: environmental
eventTypes:
- tsunami
canonicalClasses:
- collapse
impactRadius: regional
velocity: sudden
predictability: black_swan
intentionality: natural
domainCoupling: multi_domain
gallery:
- url: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/British_Museum_Flood_Tablet_1.jpg/1280px-British_Museum_Flood_Tablet_1.jpg"
  thumbnailUrl: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/British_Museum_Flood_Tablet_1.jpg/800px-British_Museum_Flood_Tablet_1.jpg"
  caption: Gilgamesh flood myth
  credit: Wikipedia · "Gilgamesh flood myth"
  width: 330
  height: 356
