@article{321574,
      recid = {321574},
      author = {Damrosch, David.},
      title = {The buried book : the loss and rediscovery of the great  Epic of Gilgamesh /},
      publisher = {H. Holt,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xi, 315 p. :},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {Composed by a poet and priest in Middle Babylonia around  1200 BCE, the Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed later stories  that would become as fundamental as any in human history,  the Odyssey and the Bible. But in 600 BCE, the clay tablets  that bore the story were lost--buried beneath ashes and  ruins when the library of King Ashurbanipal was sacked in a  raid. This book begins with the rediscovery of the epic and  its decipherment in 1872 by George Smith, a brilliant  self-taught linguist, who created a sensation when he  discovered Gilgamesh among thousands of undistinguished  tablets in the British Museum. From there the story goes  backward in time, all the way to Gilgamesh himself.--From  publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/321574},
}