The 18th century BCE Akkadian Atra-Hasis epic, named after its human hero, contains both a creation myth and a flood account and's one of three surviving Babylonian flood stories. The oldest known copy of the epic tradition concerning Atrahasis can be dated by colophon (scribal identification) to the reign of Hammurabi's great-grandson, Ammi-Saduqa (1646–1626 BCE), but various Old Babylonian fragments exist; it continued to be copied into the first millennium. The Atrahasis story also exi… (More on Atra-hasis)