Wednesday, 24 December 2014

The earliest piece of great literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh…

The earliest piece of great literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, includes a story in which Utnapishtim is told to build a ship to save the animals of the world from a “great flood”. Nearly 2,000 years later, a similar tale with different names appeared in the Bible’s book of Genesis.






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