What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform ...

where the Gilgamesh tablets were stored. JANE SWEENEY/GETTY IMAGES The tablets were in Akkadian, an ancient language written in cuneiform script. Its characters are formed from strokes in the form ...

Many of the fragments bore cuneiform hieroglyphs ... from which he thought the Gilgamesh tablets had probably come. In fact, he had sold the idea of the expedition to the Daily Telegraph on ...

The ancient text, written in cuneiform, was only used by ... as thick parsiktu vessel,'' Dr Finkel. The Gilgamesh Flood story is known from clay tablets that date back around 3,000 years, the ...