What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh ... city in Upper Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). When it ...

Only in the mid-19th century did British and French archaeologists begin to explore the mysterious mounds in present-day Iraq that ... when he unearthed Gilgamesh's broken tablets in the museum's ...

As eager as Smith had been to go to Iraq, he was completely unprepared ... from which he thought the Gilgamesh tablets had probably come. In fact, he had sold the idea of the expedition to the ...

Locked within the characters lay the Epic of Gilgamesh—now considered ... near Mosul in modern-day Iraq. Smith spent hours at the museum studying the clay tablets and teaching himself to ...

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