What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?

1. What is The Epic of Gilgamesh? Poem from ancient Iraq. Scholars believe that origin was a series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh. Originally written on 12 stone tablets.

3. Gilgamesh • It was a historical king of uruk, (iraq) in Babylonia who lived in 2700 B.C. Many stories were written about Gilgamesh. • It was written by Shin–eqi-unninni.

4. What is the setting of The Epic of Gilgamesh

5. At Messopotamia, Babylon aria. Gilgamesh, the hero, was from Uruk, an ancient Babylonian city, at the east of Euphrates river.

6. How was The Epic of Gilgamesh discovered Discovered in 1835 by Henry Creswicke Rawlinso, he discovered it in the library of king Assurbanipal of Nineveh, it was in twelve stone tablets.

7. When and Who discovered and translated The Epic of Gilgamesh?

8. Austen Henry Layard discovered The Epic of Gilgamesh in 1849.

9. The first translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh was in the 1880s by George Smith.

10. The Finding of the Epic of Gilgamesh The epic of Gilgamesh in its most complete version, came from twelve stone tablets found in the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh.

11. The Epic of Gilgamesh

12. How it was witten • The original was in the Sumerian language • It was written down with cuneiform characters on clay tablets • It was found in Mesopotamia dating back to around 2,000 BC

13. Cuneiform