The tale of the demigod Gilgamesh could have been lost ... not only became an expert in the cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, but also made a discovery that turned contemporary notions ...

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Like all ancient Mesopotamian literature, the epic of Gilgamesh was lost to historical memory with the eclipse of the ancient cultures of Assyria and Babylonia in the centuries before Christ.

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 ...

What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform ...

As it happened, the fragment Smith so rapidly found was not from Gilgamesh at all but was from ... flood is found in sources throughout ancient Mesopotamian literature.) Had he realized this ...