What is the Epic of Gilgamesh

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What is the Epic of Gilgamesh

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• the oldest written story on Earth
• From Ancient Sumeria
• Written on 12 clay tablets in cunieform script
• About the adventuresof King Uruk

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• Later became a longer Akkadian poem the form
  today is on 12 tablets
• The story relates to the relationship between
  Gilgamesh, and a friend Enkidus, journey for
  immortality

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

• Who wrote The Epic of Gilgamesh? When was it
  written?

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Who?

• Shin-equ-unninni is credited for writing it

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When?

• Between 2500BC and 2000BC

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Where is the setting if The Epic of Gligamesh?

• Modern Iraq.
• On the River of Euphrates

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Who Discovered the Epic of Gilgamesh, and when
was it discovered?
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• The standard version was discovered by Austen
  Henry Layard in the library of Ashurbanipal in
  Nineveh in 1849

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• The tablets were found by Austen Henry Layard
  and his Iraqi assistant Hormuzd Rassam during an
  archeological expedition during 1840.
• The story of The Epic of Gilgamesh was translated
  by Englishman George Smith in 1872.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smith_28assyr
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How was the Epic of Gilgamesh was discovered?

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The Answer

• The Epic of Gilgamesh tablets were found in 1853
  in Northern Iraq, or in the Assyrian Royal
  Library. It was unable to be deciphered and was
  stored in the British National Museum with other
  tablets, until the discovery of a tablet that
  could help translate the writing of cuneiform and
  help decipher the other tablets as well.

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Epic of Gilgamesh

• Where and When was the Epic of Gilgamesh found?

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It was found in the 1840s in The Royal Library
of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the
last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Ashurbanip
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How was the epic of gilgamesh written?