Given the description in the Genesis account Noah would have needed a huge supply of wood, access to master shipbuilders, sufficient funding to construct the barge, a massive amount of physical labor, and a good amount of food just to build the boat. Odd that a man who was wealthy enough to undertake such project at the instruction of god, was not mentioned elsewhere in history.
The Epic of Gilgamesh names him Utnapishtim he is immortal and rather more interesting than Noah. Utnapishtim builds his Ark as a 120 cubit cube. Noah's Ark is much grander in scale measuring 300 x 50 x 30.
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