What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform ...

Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, the 3,600-year-old religious text shows a section of a Sumerian poem from the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is one of the world's oldest works of literature and was ...

Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, the artefact features sections of a Sumerian poem - parts of the epic mirror stories from the Old Testament, such as the Garden of Eden. According to a civil ...

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 ...

It was only later that the Flood story was woven by storytellers into the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the first great epic of world literature. Smith's tablet forms the eleventh chapter of that story.

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Researchers decipher Babylonian map showing journey to Urartu, believed to be the ark's resting place after the Great Flood.

"And I made these structures as thick parsiktu vessel." The Gilgamesh Flood story is known from several clay tablets dating back over 3,000 years. Whereas the Biblical Flood was said to be about ...