Ziusudu is here warned that a flood is to be sent 'to destroy the
seed of mankind'... The destruction of mankind had been decreed in
'the assembly of the gods]' and would be carried out by the
commands of Anu and Enlil... -from "The Piety of Ziusudu" The
interconnected influences of different traditions of ancient
mythology on one another consumed the archaeological efforts of the
late 19th and early 20th century, though much work in Britain and
Europe was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. This
fascinating 1918 study-adapted from a series of lectures delivered
to the British Academy in 1916-rings with the frustration of its
British author, a renowned classical scholar, as he incorporates
the then-latest research from American academics into his
intriguing analysis of the impact of Babylonian and Egyptian
mythology on the foundations of Judaism. Drawing on newly
discovered five-thousand-year-old texts, he weaves a narrative of
the folklore of human origins unbroken from our earliest collective
memories, and his comparison of the creation and deluge stories of
a range of ancient Old World civilizations remains compelling
today. British classical scholar LEONARD W. KING (1869-1919) was
Assistant Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the
British Museum and professor of Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology
at the University of London, King's College. He also wrote
Babylonian Magic and Sorcery (1896) and A History of Sumer and
Akkad (1910).
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