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Nineveh
In 1872 George Smith found a flood story on a Nineveh tablet, with a dove and a raven sent out to find land.
It was the largest city in the world for approximately fifty years until the year 612…
Without one smashed library, what would we know of Gilgamesh?
Photo: Omar Siddeeq Yousif, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons