When it was made: The Epic of Gilgamesh may date to as ... since discovered much older cuneiform tablets with similar flood stories that suggest the story had been circulating long before the ...
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.
with many of the key elements similar to the Noah story in the biblical Book of Genesis: The seventh-century B.C. Flood Tablet, shown here, unlocked the Epic of Gilgamesh for Smith. Overwhelmed ...
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.
A federal court in the US has verified that a rare ancient artefact, known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, was legally seized by authorities. The 3,500-year-old tablet, from what is now Iraq ...