What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform ...

Setting the tablet on the table, Smith jumped up and rushed about the room in a great state of excitement." What he had uncovered would become known in the West as The Epic of Gilgamesh ...

Self-taught scholar George Smith pieced together the Epic of Gilgamesh from broken tablets in the British Museum. At age 14 Smith left formal schooling and became an apprentice in a publishing ...

It was only later that the Flood story was woven by storytellers into the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the first great epic of world literature. Smith's tablet forms the eleventh chapter of that story.

A priceless tablet of Gilgamesh, the oldest and most important work of literature is stolen from a museum. A security guard vows to do whatever it takes to get it back from a group of smugglers.

In 1872, the young curator George Smith created a sensation when he unearthed Gilgamesh's broken tablets in the museum's collection. Smith immediately perceived that the character of Uta-napishtim ...

like the Epic of Gilgamesh, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, director of the Girsu Project, Sébastien Rey told The Independent they are “nonetheless incredibly important.” “They ...