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In 1872, George Smith, a researcher at the British Museum was laboriously putting together jigsaw like pieces of the Babylonian tablets found at Nineveh. One night Smith came across a large fragment with only one side legible. He was stunned to read the story of a man who built an ark to escape a devastating flood, who brought on board animals of all types, who sent out birds to see if the waters had receded. Smith had stumbled across one chapter of a much longer tale The Epic of Gilgamesh inscribed in clay no later than the 17th century B.C.

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