Recovering The World's Oldest Poem
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2020-09-09

There are over half a million cuneiform tablets in museums across the world, and only a handful of people who can decipher them. One of them, Professor Andrew George, worked for seven years on deciphering and translating the world’s oldest poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh, making this ancient text available for the modern world. 

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