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Gilgamesh flood tablet: A 2,600-year-old text that's eerily similar to the story of Noah's Ark
What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform ...
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Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action Hero
Among these was the Flood Tablet, deciphered by George Smith in 1872, which alerted him to the existence of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh. Long days working with the ancient puzzle were relieved ...
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Episode 16 - Flood Tablet
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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New York court orders Gilgamesh tablet returned to Iraq
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Episode Transcript – Episode 16 - Flood Tablet
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.