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A newspaper sent Smith back to Nineveh
After George Smith's flood discovery, the Daily Telegraph funded his expedition to find the missing fragments. Against the odds, he did.
An impossible mission, accomplished.
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He unearthed older fragments of the flood story and other texts with biblical parallels. His Chaldean Account of Genesis (1876) let readers compare biblical and Babylonian texts side by side.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 7
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