Mount Nisir

See also the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Mount Nisir is supposedly the mountain today that is known as Pir Magrun (Gudrun) around Suleimani in Iraqi Kurdistan.

According the Epic of Gilgamesh, Mt. Nisir is the resting place of the ship built by Utnapishtim. Old Babylonian cuneiform texts carefully describe where Mt. Nisir is to be found. Despite the precise descriptions in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the curious have never attempted to search for the remains of the giant ship of Mt. Nisir.[1]

References

  1. ^ Werner Keller, The Bible As History: A Confirmation of the Book of Books, trans. William Neil (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1956) 39. From Chapter 4, entitled "A Flood Story From Old Babylonia."