Saturday, January 8, 2022

MESOPOTAMIA AND EGYPT

Flood Story from the Epic of Gilgamesh  (2100 b.c.e.)

Prose Translation                                                       

Verse Translation                                                     

Assyro-Babylonian Cosmogony

Enuma Elish (1750 b.c.e.)   Article at World History Encyclopedia                                 

Babylonian Law

The Code of Hammurabi    (1700 b.c.e.)                                                    

Egyptian Cosmogony

Legend of the Creation   


















































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