The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (Audiobook)
The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (Audiobook) By David Damrosch, read by William Hughes
Unabridged edition 2007 | 7 hours and 21 mins | ISBN: 1433206862, ASIN: B00124WAYM | MP3 56 kbps | 177 MB
Unabridged edition 2007 | 7 hours and 21 mins | ISBN: 1433206862, ASIN: B00124WAYM | MP3 56 kbps | 177 MB
Etched in the wedge-shaped letters known as cuneiform on clay tablets, Gilgamesh stands as the earliest classic of world literature. In The Buried Book, David Damrosch describes the career of George Smith, a self-taught Assyriologist, who one momentous afternoon in 1872 was working at the British Museum, going through a pile of Layard's clay tablets. Suddenly, Smith realized that he was reading about "a flood storm, a ship caught on a mountain, and a bird sent out in search of dry land."
Daring adventurers, fearless explorers, ancient kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this riveting story of the first great epic–first to the world for 2,500 years and rediscovered in the nineteenth century.