This drawing of the "Island of Mesha" ( Mountain of Mesha - or Mashu) as Noah called it, ­­ is shown just as the ark makes its initial landing approach. The drawing is based entirely on the actual photograph of the mountain as it looks today ­ flood water added. ( see inset ). The ark landed approximately 300 meters from the huge limestone cliff face of what later would be called "The Wall of Heaven" in the famous Akkadian story "The Epic of Gilgamesh."

The twin-peaked mountain where the city of Noah, Naxuan, was constructed after the flood, was called "mountains of Mashu," by Gilgamesh, but "Mesha" by Noah. ( See Genesis 10:30 )

To this very day the local Kurds call the approaches to these peaks "Mashu-r" meaning "resurrection day" or "doomsday." Mesha (msh) the Shemitic root, means to be "drawn out and saved from water." (see James Strong's Concordance of the Bible ). Moses ( or Moshe also spelled msh), was "drawn out" and saved from the Nile waters, so he bore this name. The placename "Mashu" of Gilgamesh ­ "Mesha" of Genesis, and "Moses" of Genesis, all originally meant the same thing. The present Akkadian understanding of this Shemitic word "Mashu" has been altered in meaning to "twins," but this was merely because of the association with the twin peaks on Mashu mountain itself. Just as the word "gay" has migrated completely in English meaning in only a few decades because of another type of association, the Akkadians altered the meaning because of the story and its telling. Presently Akkadian scholars insist that "Mashu" means "twins," but... "Now you know the rest of the story."

The post-flood city of Noah, Mesha-Naxuan, was not built on a "twin" with all respects to modern Akkadian scholars, but on a mountain that had twin peaks, and here we see the exact location of the ancient long lost city of Mesha-Naxuan, on this very mountain that also holds the ark ruins. Hardly a coincidence.