THE BABYLONIAN STORY OF THE DELUGE AND THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH: WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE ROYAL LIBRARIES OF NINEVEH (UNABRIDGED‪)‬

A short monograph devoted to the Babylonian flood myth and the Epic of Gilgamesh , dating from the 7th century BC, as found on the clay tablets of the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal at the ancient site of Nineveh, capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The book includes a description of the library and an account of its discovery. The narratives are conveyed through a combination of verbatim translation and paraphrase. The text contains eighteen illustrations. - Summary by Kazbek