Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid
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You're Dead to Me · Epic of Gilgamesh: myths and heroes in ancient Mesopotamia · 13 Mar 2026
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They are, yeah.
And they're like nine kilometers long and they're very thick and they're very real.
I think archaeologists estimate 300 million bricks in this thing.
Yes.
So the first Akkadian texts were found in 1849 by Austin Henry Laird in Nineveh in the library of Ashurbanipal.
And these were ones that were copied down by scribes.
And obviously, with the death of scribal training, no one copied them down anymore.
So they just get buried.
But there are strands of the story that may have survived into other forms of literature.
So, for example, some have argued that Gilgamesh is in the Arabian Nights under a different name, Buluqiyah.
Some disagree with that.
So, you know, take it with a grain of salt.
And there's even an argument that the green man in the Quran, al-Khidr, who is this wise man who guards the sea and teaches knowledge, he might be at-rakhasis.
So there are some elements that have survived.
Once cuneiform was deciphered, parts of it got translated.
And in the 1870s, a self-taught working class Londoner called George Smith, who was studying clay tablets at the British Museum, he was the first to translate the epic into English, producing a translation of this flood tablet, Tablet 11.
That was quite an exciting discovery at the time.
Translating tablets.
That's amazing.
Yeah, so in English, there's a wonderful critical edition by Andrew George, if you want to get really into the nitty gritty of the language.
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