The Epic of Gilgamesh

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The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest surviving literary work in human history: the story of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, written on clay tablets in cuneiform script in ancient Sumer approximately 2100 BC. When George Smith of the British Museum translated Tablet XI in 1872 and found a flood story — with an ark, animals taken in pairs, birds sent out, a dove that did not return — that was over a thousan