Myths from Mesopotamia

Myths from Mesopotamia Introduction

Oxford University Press, 1991 - Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian - 337 pages. This pathbreaking work uncovers new translations of the main myths and epics written in Akkadian, including the Creation myths and the epic of Gilgamesh. The deities and heroes which figure in these stories are all of ancient Mesopotamia, and many of the original clay tablets, on which the stories were first inscribed, were discovered there.