700 BC SUMER EPIC OF GILGAMESH

The Epic of Gilgamesh, a text whose flood narrative closely parallels the story of Noah's Ark, following Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, and Enkidu, a wild man sent by the gods to check his oppression of Uruk's people. The best-preserved surviving copies come from the library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh.

The card

• Date — 700 BC
• Where — Attributed to Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh, Iraq (the epic itself is set in Uruk). 36.3600, 43.1500 — approximate
• Evidence grade — WEB-PHOTO

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• Epic of Gilgamesh

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