What 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 ...

engraved on tablets and buried in the city's walls. Like all ancient Mesopotamian literature, the epic of Gilgamesh was lost to historical memory with the eclipse of the ancient cultures of ...

Setting the tablet on the table, Smith jumped up and rushed about the room in a great state of excitement." What he had uncovered would become known in the West as The Epic of Gilgamesh ...

Luckily, the texts were written on clay tablets, and so were baked and ... a fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh, telling the story of a great flood; the Royal Game of Ur board game, which ...

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