36. The Deluge.

Noah, yes. The story about him and his ark is much older than itself.

The first ones we know with certainty told the tale of the big flood was the Sumerians, since they also developed the first real writing language - along with the first city states - where current borders place southern Iraq. The story of the deluge and of Ziusudra, who was both forewarned and given the receipt for a boat by the god Enki, is full of similarities with the Noah myth.

Abraham, by the way, the ancestor of three religions, is supposed to have been raised in one of the Sumerian cities - Ur.