Greg Jenner
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Appearances Over Time
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So he did it.
Eternal life.
He nailed it.
I was going to say, yeah.
Yes, my lasting memory is this thing where I forced everyone to do slave labour.
We should talk about how the story of Gilgamesh, the epic of Gilgamesh, was rediscovered in modern times.
This is how the ancient world understood it.
This is how it was passed down through their generations.
But I guess we then received it much later on.
Could you talk us through the modern text's history?
And Mary Lane, George Smith, our working class self-taught Londoner, he was so thrilled to have produced this translation.
How did he celebrate it?
Or go on a killing spree?
He literally did.
Really?
Really?
He ran naked through the, was it the British Museum?
That's right, yeah.
Stripped off his clothes and just ran screaming naked through shouting, I did it!
That's what Victorians really were up to.