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The tale of the Gilgamesh Dream tablet

The significance of a looted clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia, recently returned to Iraq.

An ancient clay tablet looted from Iraq in 1991 was recently returned to the country. The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet is part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the world’s oldest surviving works of literature. ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Arabic’s Eli Melki trained as an archaeologist, and he explains what makes this tablet so remarkable.

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(Photo: The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet. Credit: REUTERS/Saba Kareem)

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