The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch

The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

David Damrosch

315 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this riveting story of the first great epic--lost to the world for 2,000 years, and rediscovered in the nineteenth centuryComposed by a poet and priest in Middle Babylonia around 1...

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