The epic adventures of the Gilgamesh Dream tablet
An ancient clay tablet displaying part of the story of a superhuman god will be returned to Iraq by the US on Thursday./ Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, the 3,600-year-old religious text shows a section of a Sumerian poem from the Epic of Gilgamesh./ It is one of the world's oldest works of literature and was looted from an Iraqi museum during the Gulf War in 1991./ Over the past 30 years, it has been smuggled through many countries, accompanied by false documents. Until just two years ago, it was prominently displayed in a museum near ...
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