Tag: ashurbanipal
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Gilgamesh & the Search for the ‘Landing Place’, Part 1
Who needs a television action hero when the Epic of Gilgamesh supplies the real thing? Gilgamesh, the fifth king of Uruk, a Sumerian city-state circa 2500 BC, fulfills any reader’s need for epic adventure.
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The Celestial Battle: Babylonian Epic of Creation
The Babylonian Creation Myth or Enuma Elish was recovered in 1849 among the ruins of Ashurbanipal’s library in Nineveh (modern day Mosul, Iraq).