The tale of the demigod Gilgamesh could have been lost, except for the unrelenting curiosity of an unlikely scholar, George Smith. Climbing the social ladder in Victorian England was difficult.

Later, Utu-napishtim tells Gilgamesh of his experience ... After handing over the artifact to the museum, a researcher named George Smith deciphered the text and allegedly said, "I am the first ...

The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 27th century BC) 1 is famed as being the first corpus of epic literature known to man. It is also a source of much conjecture ...