Gilgamesh tablet: Bid to confiscate artefact from Museum of the Bible
These are external links and will open in a new window/ US authorities allege that the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was smuggled illegally into the US US prosecutors are seeking to confiscate a rare ancient tablet from a Christian museum co-founded by the president of retailer Hobby Lobby. The 3,500-year-old artefact, from what is now Iraq, bears text from the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the world's oldest works of literature. Prosecutors allege that an unnamed auction house deliberately withheld information about its origins. Hobby Lobby said it ...
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