AN OLD EDITION
Part of a stone tablet has heen found at Kish bearing 50 lines of , the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest adventure stories in the. world. It may have been written on this tablet 4000 years ago. Many other tablets have been found, the best being a set of 12 belonging to a King of Assyria, who lived about 650 B.C. This epic is one of the most importqnt litqpary products of Babylon, and bnside dealing with the adventure, gives an account of the Great Flood. The tablet will he very valuable, being probably th'e oldest edition of the story ever discovered.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 290, 2 August 1932, Page 7
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106AN OLD EDITION Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 290, 2 August 1932, Page 7
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