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Artefact Telling Story Of Noah’s Ark Suggests ‘fake News’ Has Been Around by massmediang: 6:46pm On Nov 26, 2019
Artefact telling story of Noah’s Ark suggests ‘fake news’ has been around for 3,000 years
The art of tricking readers into misinterpreting language can now be dated back some 3,000 years after new research into a Babylonian version of the story of Noah’s Ark.

A study of a clay tablet discovered in the 19th century in present-day Iraq has found its writers deployed a pre-historic version of “fake news” by providing multiple meanings of the same words when telling the story of a flood.

Nine lines etched into the Flood Tablet, held by the British Museum, suggest that a Babylonian god – Ea – promised a flood of food to Uta-napishti, the pre-Biblical version of Noah, in return for building an ark.

But work by Dr Martin Worthington, a specialist in early Middle Eastern civilisations at St John’s College, Cambridge, has found the language, part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, contains several phonetically-identical alternative – and more sobering – meanings.

‘Manipulation of information and language’
Dr Worthington said: “While Ea’s message seems to promise a rain of food, its hidden meaning warns of the flood. Once the ark is built, Uta-napishti and his family clamber aboard and survive with a menagerie of animals. Everyone else drowns.

“The manipulation of information and language has begun. It may be the earliest ever example of fake news.”
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https://wakkinews.com/2019/11/26/artefact-telling-story-of-noahs-ark-suggests-fake-news-has-been-around-for-3000-years/

Re: Artefact Telling Story Of Noah’s Ark Suggests ‘fake News’ Has Been Around by Blakjewelry(m): 7:20pm On Nov 26, 2019
that is exactly were the Hebrews got there story from and Nigerian people go talk and argue like they know shiit well them no dey like read sha

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