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From Wikipedia. Enūma Eliš (also spelled “Enuma Elish”), meaning “When on High”, is a Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words) from the late 2nd millennium BCE and the only complete surviving account of ancient near eastern cosmology. It was recovered by English archaeologist Austen Henry Layard in 1849 (in fragmentary form) in the […]
Continue ReadingEpic of Gilgamesh. A fragment of a version of this well-known text was discovered at the site of Megiddo in northern Israel. From here, about the Amarna Tablets in Canaan. From Wikipedia Modern rediscovery In 1880, the English Assyriologist George Smith published a translation of Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh (right), containing the […]
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