Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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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.
Eternal life.
He nailed it.
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.
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.
The epic of Gilgamesh has meant and will mean different things to me throughout my life.
It's about power, grief, community, death, love.
But right now, as we watch one interconnected crisis after another unfold, I want to tell you what I think it could mean in this moment.
Khumbaba was the guardian of the cedar forest, appointed by the god Enlil to keep the ancient cedars safe.
He had the face of a raging lion, he breathed fire, his cry was a deluge.
In ancient Mesopotamia, people sometimes used sheep entrails to predict the future, and one omen says that intestines shaped like Khumbaba's face foretell the arrival of a usurper king.
Imagine the face of this monster, like the coiled intestines of a dying animal, slippery, bloody, palpitating.
I used to wonder why create such a terrifying creature to guard trees.
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