![Looted Gilgamesh tablet, one of world's oldest surviving works of literature, returns to Iraq | PBS NewsHour Looted Gilgamesh tablet, one of world's oldest surviving works of literature, returns to Iraq | PBS NewsHour](https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2021/12/2021-09-23T194910Z_654857530_RC2UVP9DW5KM_RTRMADP_3_USA-IRAQ-TABLET-1024x733.jpg)
Looted Gilgamesh tablet, one of world's oldest surviving works of literature, returns to Iraq | PBS NewsHour
![A new chapter of the Epic of Gilgamesh is revealed when the fragment of Tablet V was finally recovered. It was written in Standard Babylonian and dates back to the Neo-Babylonian period ( A new chapter of the Epic of Gilgamesh is revealed when the fragment of Tablet V was finally recovered. It was written in Standard Babylonian and dates back to the Neo-Babylonian period (](https://preview.redd.it/55gxcnbwatb71.jpg?auto=webp&s=bb5d489e30607261c62316275970517b980ef1a6)
A new chapter of the Epic of Gilgamesh is revealed when the fragment of Tablet V was finally recovered. It was written in Standard Babylonian and dates back to the Neo-Babylonian period (
![US seizes rare Epic of Gilgamesh tablet, considered one of world's oldest works of literature, from Hobby Lobby | The Independent US seizes rare Epic of Gilgamesh tablet, considered one of world's oldest works of literature, from Hobby Lobby | The Independent](https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/07/27/22/Screen%20Shot%202021-07-27%20at%205.23.32%20PM.png)
US seizes rare Epic of Gilgamesh tablet, considered one of world's oldest works of literature, from Hobby Lobby | The Independent
Incunabula on X: "On 3 Dec 1872, George Smith gave a public lecture in which he announced his translation of what we now know as Tablet 11 of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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