2 APRIL 1910, Page 3

A correspondent of the Times gives an interesting summary of

a Babylonian version of the story of the Flood discovered at Nippur by the American excavators acting under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania. The text, which is inscribed on a tablet of tmbaked clay, and corresponds sub- stantially with the Nineveh versions, has been edited by Pro- fessor Hilprecht as "the earliest version of the Babylonian Deluge Story," and the parallels between it and the Bible version, set forth in his forthcoming volume, are both close and striking, especially as this fragment, in his opinion, probably belongs to a version which was written, destroyed, and buried before the time of Abraham.