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Jeffrey H. Tigay, The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), pp. 246–247.

The only older archaeologically investigated shipwreck from antiquity in the Indian Ocean area, that of a fifth- or sixth-century A.D. shipwreck in Eritrea, has yet to yield hull remains. See Ralph K. Pedersen, “Under the Erythraean Sea: An Ancient Shipwreck in Eritrea,” The INA Quarterly 27, no. 2/3 (2000), pp. 3–13.

Michael Flecker, “A Ninth-century Arab or Indian Shipwreck in Indonesian Waters.” International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 29, no. 2 (2000), pp. 199–217.

James Hornell, Water Transport: Origins and Early Evolution (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1946), p. 234.

Henry Yule, The Book of Ser Marco Polo, volume 1, book 1, 3rd edition. (London: John Murray, 1926), p. 108.

Ibn Battuta, Travels in Asia and Africa 1325–1354, ed. and trans. H. A. R. Gibb (New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1929), p. 114.

Richard Francis Burton, Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast (New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1967), pp. 75–76.

Henry Yule, The Book of Ser Marco Polo, volume 1, book 1, 3rd edition. (London: John Murray, 1926), p. 117, n. 3.

George Smith, “The Chaldean Account of the Deluge,” Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology II (1873), pp. 213–234.