Title page from The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh

The Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh

This book attempts to reconstruct two ancient Sumerian stories from photographs of the stone tablets on which they were originally written: one story concerns an ancient account of a deluge (or flood) which destroyed much of civilization); the other concerns the exploits of the mythical Gilgamesh who takes a stand against Agga, the king of Kish.

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