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The Buried Book

The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

by David Damrosch

A narrative history of how the Epic of Gilgamesh was written, lost and recovered, from Ashurbanipal's library to the excavations of Layard and Rassam and George Smith's discovery of the flood tablet. Damrosch writes for general readers while drawing on current scholarship.

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