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Now known as the Epic of Gilgamesh, this work was totally new to scholars. Believed to have been composed around 1800 B.C., it is one of the world’s oldest great literary works.

Writing of George Smith, who discovered “The Epic of Gilgamesh” in the 19th century, Warner observes that “his joy was occasioned above all by the independent corroboration the poem offered ...

‘Gilgamesh’ Review: An Ancient Modern Poem The jagged edges of the ‘Gilgamesh’ fragments prick the imaginations of poets and translators. By James Romm Jan. 3, 2020 6:17 pm ET Resize ...

Once in the U.S., the tablet was cleaned and experts were able to identify the cuneiform writing as part of the Gilgamesh epic, written in Akkadian.

Gilgamesh had no vocalist, and so the levity is all in the music, despite its writing—most of it by Gowan—being defined by plenty of complex twists and turns, knotty thematic constructs and meter ...

The Department of Justice has formally seized a 3600-year-old cuneiform tablet that bears part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the world’s oldest works of literature, from the crafts retailer ...