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What is the Epic of Gilgamesh

What is the Epic of Gilgamesh. Sierra, Katie, Hanna. the oldest written story on Earth From Ancient Sumeria Written on 12 clay tablets in cunieform script About the adventures of King Uruk. Later became a longer Akkadian poem; the form today is on 12 tablets

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What is the Epic of Gilgamesh

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  1. What is the Epic of Gilgamesh Sierra, Katie, Hanna

  2. the oldest written story on Earth • From Ancient Sumeria • Written on 12 clay tablets in cunieform script • About the adventuresof King Uruk

  3. Later became a longer Akkadian poem; the form today is on 12 tablets • The story relates to the relationship between Gilgamesh, and a friend Enkidu’s, journey for immortality

  4. The Epic of Gilgamesh Who wrote The Epic of Gilgamesh? When was it written?

  5. Who? Shin-equ-unninni is credited for writing it

  6. When? • Between 2500BC and 2000BC

  7. Picture from Google, corrupt.org

  8. Where is the setting if The Epic of Gligamesh? Modern Iraq. On the River of Euphrates

  9. Who Discovered the Epic of Gilgamesh, and when was it discovered?

  10. “The standard version was discovered by Austen Henry Layard in the library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh in 1849”

  11. The tablets were found “by Austen Henry Layard and his Iraqi assistant Hormuzd Rassam during an archeological expedition during 1840.” • The story of The Epic of Gilgamesh was translated by Englishman George Smith in 1872. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smith_%28assyriologist%29

  12. How was the Epic of Gilgamesh was discovered? Bre & Tate

  13. The Answer • The Epic of Gilgamesh tablets were found in 1853 in Northern Iraq, or in the Assyrian Royal Library. It was unable to be deciphered and was stored in the British National Museum with other tablets, until the discovery of a tablet that could help translate the writing of cuneiform and help decipher the other tablets as well.

  14. Epic of Gilgamesh Where and When was the Epic of Gilgamesh found?

  15. It was found in the 1840’s in “The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Ashurbanipal

  16. How was the epic of gilgamesh written?

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