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Gilgamesh flood tablet: A 2,600-year-old text that's eerily similar to the story of Noah's ArkWhat it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform ...
Self-taught scholar George Smith pieced together the Epic of Gilgamesh from broken tablets in the British Museum. At age 14 Smith left formal schooling and became an apprentice in a publishing ...
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Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian lifeWhen a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...
It was only later that the Flood story was woven by storytellers into the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the first great epic of world literature. Smith's tablet forms the eleventh chapter of that story.
Over 200 administrative tablets and around 50 cylinder seal impressions ... masterpieces of Sumerian literature, like the Epic of Gilgamesh, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia ...
The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 27th century BC) 1 is famed as being the first corpus of epic literature known to man. It is also a source of much conjecture ...
It was only later that the Flood story was woven by storytellers into the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the first great epic of world literature. Smith's tablet forms the eleventh chapter of that story.
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