Book 1960

The epic of Gilgamesh

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Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 1960

Fiction
Poetry
Translations into English
Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian
Sumerian Epic poetry

THE Epic of Gilgamesh, the renowned king of Uruk in Mesopotamia, comes from an age which had been wholly forgotten, until in the last century archaeologists began uncovering the buried cities of the Middle East.