The Gilgamesh Tablet is a 3,500-year-old Mesopotamian cuneiform clay tablet that was looted from Iraq and illegally imported into the US. It is believed to have been stolen from an Iraqi museum in 1991 while the country was caught up in the first Gulf War. The Epic of Gilgamesh is considered one of the oldest pieces of literature in the world, telling the story of a Mesopotamian king on a quest for immortality. |
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