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actually, its sumerian, not babylonian
The '''Epic of Gilgamesh''' is a [[Babylon]]ian tale that was preserved on stone and clay tablets for thousands of years. The text of [[Gilgamesh]]'s epic is on 12 incomplete Akkadian-language tablets, found at a destroyed library of the [[Assyria]]n king Ashurbanipal in [[Nineveh]]. (Reigned 668-627 BC)
The '''Epic of Gilgamesh''' is a [[Sumerian]] tale that was preserved on stone and clay tablets for thousands of years. The text of [[Gilgamesh]]'s epic is on 12 incomplete Akkadian-language tablets, found at a destroyed library of the [[Assyria]]n king Ashurbanipal in [[Nineveh]]. (Reigned 668-627 BC)
The tablets are dated from 2500 to 2000 B.C.
The tablets are dated from 2500 to 2000 B.C.