Recently I visited the British Museum to take some photos of the actual coins of King Herod for an article that I was writing about entitled - Is there any evidence of Herod the Great the Biblical King?

After searching the museum for a couple of hours and then being told the coins may not be on show I realised that was why I could not find them also by then my legs felt like they where about to collapse as I was getting tired.

I still refused to give up looking which turned out to pay off eventually and ended up being the wonderful surprise which I would like to share with you now. It was a surprise that nearly caused my eyes to pop out of my head!!!

So what was I looking at?

I found my self staring through a glass cabinet with my nose squashed to the front of the glass in amazement.

I wasn't looking at what I came here for but instead I had stumbled upon a broken peace of irregular shaped solid clay which looked like Chinese writing engraved on its surface and just next to it was a little sign saying, This is perhaps the most famous of all, the eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic, which describes how the Gods sent a flood to destroy the world that had became so evil.

My thoughts were at this point that as far as I had been aware this story was in the Hebrew book of Genesis told by Moses which I just read may have been written and handed down to Moses by Abraham and his sons.

A man named George Smith, who was the first to decipher the Flood Tablet, was so amazed with what he read on this ancient piece of clay that he ran around the British Museum tearing off his clothes screaming with excitement.

I was staring at the same, very famous, very old piece of clay, 6 inches wide and 3.17 cm (1.25 in) depth.