(Grandfather of Noah)Methuselah died at the age of 969. [Gen 5:26] George Smith, of the British Museum, found in 1872, the tablets from the Library of King Assur-banipal at Nineveh, accounts of the Flood curiously parallel to the Bible account, which had been copied from tablets dating back to the First Dynasty of Ur, a period about midway between the Flood and Abraham... In these tablets these expressions repeatedly appear -- 'The Flood,''the age before the Flood,''inscriptions of the time before the Flood.' Source: Halley's Bible Handbook, by H.H.Halley; Zondervan Publishing Co.; Copyright 1965; pp. 76; 328