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Evidence of human writing 1,000 years earlier than previously thought
The earliest known writing system is thought to be Sumerian ... It was the city of Gilgamesh, the hero from the Epic of Gilgamesh, often cited as the first major composition.
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Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action Hero
shattered clay tablets covered in indecipherable writing held one of the world’s greatest treasures. Locked within the characters lay the Epic of Gilgamesh—now considered by many to be the ...
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Ancient genetics—Was Gilgamesh a mosaic?
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 ...