A 3,500-year-old clay tablet that bears the text of one of the world’s oldest works of literature and was purchased by Hobby Lobby in 2014 for $1.6 million has been forfeited to the United States, the ...
(Reuters) - The Epic of Gilgamesh, a 3,500-year-old Sumererian tale considered one of the world’s first pieces of literature, has a new chapter in an unlikely location: the U.S. court system. On ...
The specific tablet that has caused such excitement is a school text listing kings who ruled at the end of the third millennium BC. Other known copies of this same royal list also include Gilgamesh, ...