The Forgotten Folktale of Noah and The Great Flood
The Forgotten Folktale of Noah and The Great Flood by Aidan Gregory In the Mount Ararat region of modern Turkey, remnants of a long-lost tribe called the Urartians still tell a tale of the Great Flood. The Urartians had a great mountain empire, the Kingdom of Urartu (9th–6th centuries BC), and although there were many other peoples, the Nairi, the Hayasa-Azzi, the Hurrians, and the Kura-Araxes, stretching as far back as 3500 BC, the few Urartians today still claim to be descended from Noah and the survivors of his Ark. This story is attributed to a busker residing in Istan...