The Full Account

The afterlife of the Epic of Gilgamesh: how the tablets were lost when Nineveh fell, buried for two millennia, excavated and shipped to the British Museum, deciphered by George Smith, and then received — translated, celebrated, compressed, and mythologized — in ways that replaced the text...

The central narrative arc of the Epic of Gilgamesh examined through the cuneiform tablets — the friendship, the Cedar Forest, Enkidu's death, the grief, the journey to Utnapishtim, the flood narrative, and the ending that denies its hero the object of his quest.

The textual and historical origins of the Epic of Gilgamesh — the composite cuneiform tradition, the world of early urban Mesopotamia, and the civilization that produced the oldest surviving written narrative

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