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Epics

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Texts

The Enuma ElishThe Babylonian creation epic — seven cuneiform tablets telling how Marduk slew chaos and shaped the world from her body.The Epic of GilgameshThe oldest epic poem in human history — a Sumerian king's quest for immortality, rendered from cuneiform tablets in the British Museum.