The buried book : the loss and rediscovery of the great Epic of Gilgamesh /
Composed by a poet and priest in Middle Babylonia around 1200 BCE, the Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed later stories that would become as fundamental as any in human history, the Odyssey and the Bible. But in 600 BCE, the clay tablets that bore the story were lost--buried beneath ashes and ruins when...
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New York :
H. Holt,
2008.
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| Edition: | First Holt Paperbacks edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The broken tablets
- Early fame and sudden death
- The lost library
- The fortress and the museum
- After Ashurbanipal, the deluge
- At the limits of culture
- The vanishing point.