Give an account of the recovery of The Epic of Gilgamesh and discuss the problems presented by the fragmentary and alien nature of the sources? The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest written work to have survived into the modern era. ... During the 20th century with further discovery of cuneiform tablets, the complexity of the process of recovery of the Gilgamesh epic became more apparent. ... The next major translation of the Gilgamesh epic was produced in 1930 by Regan Campbell Thompson which included older tablets from the 2nd Millennium B.C. ... It is believed that only 2/3 of the Epic hav...

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