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 ...

A vast library was assembled in Assyria by King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2,700 years ago. The ...

Nanna. A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveals the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, ...

This librarian wanted to know much more about the organisation of knowledge in Ashurbanipal's library, as there is a fair ...

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 ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Flood Tablet (made around 700 - 600 BC). Clay writing tablet from northern Iraq When you ...

Wisnom’s book recounts the labours of the excavators who uncovered more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments ... from ancient Mesopotamia is the Epic of Gilgamesh, a story that survives ...

“This exhibition unfolds the timeless Epic of Gilgamesh through the expressive ... world where memory and myth converge—where the figure of Gilgamesh walks again, not through ancient clay tablets, but ...

and one of its many versatile and precocious achievements was Gilgamesh, our first recognisable epic poem. It has gradually been pieced together, as the cuneiform tablets have been unearthed and ...