A small tablet, found in modern Iraq, tells of a plan by the gods to destroy the world by means of a great flood. Pre-dating the story of Noah, when it was translated in 1872, this fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh caused a storm around the world and led to a passionate debate about the truth of the Bible, about storytelling and the universality of legend. How could the similarity between the Mesopotamian myth and the biblical Flood story be explained? (Duration: 14 mins)