"The Sumerian Flood Story and Its Biblical Narrative", an Article by Ibrahim el-Fanni

Undated, this archival item, handwritten in Arabic by Ibrahim el-Fanni, shows a multi-page draft that begins by discussing the Sumerian civilization and its invention of writing, where the Sumerian language is the first written language in 3500 BC. The article mentions how the Sumerian antiquities changed the reference of the history of the ancient East from a religious source “the Torah” to a scientific historical study, it also mentions the reason for the interest in studying these archaeological discoveries belonging to the civilization Sumerian, as it refutes many of the biblical claims, which Israel uses as a source to prove its right to the land, and the article deals with the story of the Flood in the Sumerian tablets and the Old Testament.