What's next? A new poem by Confucius?

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JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hobby lobby once bought a Gilgamesh tablet off the black market

OuterRem@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y

I swear this decade is like a fever dream. Send me back to the BearenstEin’s Gate Worldline.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y

There's been talk the eleventh commandment will drop soon.

MeatPilot@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

"Then Gilgamesh woke up, it was all a bad dream - the end"

TallonMetroid@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Wouldn't mind getting the final act of the Aenid. C'mon Virgil, I believe in you!

sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y

I wonder if it is as obviously and openly horny and lewd as many other Sumerian/Babylonian texts.

JackLSauce@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

For anybody else wondering about the roughly 1500 year gap, there are conflicting statements between the museum and an article (presumably the one above) written about it but I don't see any explanation on either side's reasoning:

https://etc.worldhistory.org/exhibitions/giglamesh-enkidu-humbaba-cedar-forest-newest-discovered-tablet-v-epic/