The palace could hold cuneiform texts detailing the daily life of the city, and potentially include lost tablets from the Epic of Gilgamesh, a 4,000\u002Dyear\u002Dold…
The palace could hold cuneiform texts detailing the daily life of the city, and potentially include lost tablets from the Epic of Gilgamesh, a 4,000-year-old poem which is believed to have inspired some stories in the Bible.Article content
While its innovations filtered down into later civilisations, knowledge of the culture was lost until a French team, led by Ernest de Sarzec, unearthed Girsu in 1877. Dr Ray said: “There was one moment when we knew we had something promising. We found a stone and the stone had an inscription… When we read the inscription it was King Gudea building a temple for the god Ningirsu and then the name of the temple, so we knew without a doubt this was the temple.”
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