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"I doubt it. As I understand it, Gilgamesh is the same individual as Noah. I think the great flood was an earlier event (consider the Black Sea flooding nearer to Ararat), but I would give a Lot more credence on this one explaining Sodom and Gamorrah."

The Black Sea Flood (Noah's Flood?) occurred 7,600 years ago. (Ryan & Pittman, Noah's Flood) Gilgamesh ruled Babylonia about 2,700BC (4,700 years ago). I believe the Gilgamesh/Noah story are taken from the same event. Whether they were the same person, don't know. There's a 2,900 year gap between the flood (Black Sea) and when Gilgamesh ruled Babylonia. That's a reeeaaal long time interval. (Are we back to the possibility of two floods?) I expect so.

The story of Gilgamesh involves the same releases of birds to test subsidance as does that of Noah according to a version of it in a library book we were using for my kids' history lesson on Sumerian civilization, and that's ALL I've seen. I noted that since it was a PC book approved for children (wouldn't want the kiddies to be learning about something from the Bible (that would be religion, Babylonian religion is OK though)) there was (of course) no mention of Noah in the story or its introduction. I pick some of this stuff up in wierd places.