CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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a graphic novel
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a 12 month calendar
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a movie
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the oldest book
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Detailed explanation-1: -The oldest surviving literary work is The Epic of Gilgamesh. It was composed nearly 4, 000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly equivalent to where Iraq and eastern Syria are now).
Detailed explanation-2: -The oldest epic recognized is the Epic of Gilgamesh ( c. 2500–1300 BCE), which was recorded in ancient Sumer during the Neo-Sumerian Empire. The poem details the exploits of Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk.
Detailed explanation-3: -The fullest extant text of the Gilgamesh epic is on 12 incomplete Akkadian-language tablets found at Nineveh in the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (reigned 668–627 bce). The gaps that occur in the tablets have been partly filled by various fragments found elsewhere in Mesopotamia and Anatolia.
Detailed explanation-4: -The standard Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh was composed by a scribe named Sîn-lēqi-unninni, probably during the Middle Babylonian Period ( c. 1600 – c. 1155 BC), based on much older source material. In the epic, Gilgamesh is a demigod of superhuman strength who befriends the wild man Enkidu.