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Posted by Tiglath (Guest) davidchibo@hotmail.com - Friday, March 5 2004, 5:39:20 (EST)
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parhad wrote:
>I think the guy's name was George Smith..an English amateur scholar who taught himself to read cuneiform and dazzled the people in the British Museum...or something like that so they hired him and he was the one to decipher or find the first half of the Gilgamesh Epic. Anyway that's not the most important part.
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According to E. A. Wallis Budge Smith declared upon translating Napushtin's Ark, "I am the first man to read that after two thousand years of oblivion!" Setting the tablet on the table, he jumped upand rushed around the room in a great excitement and to the astonishment of all those present began to undress himself!

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them boring tablets again parhad - Thursday, March 4 2004, 10:28:45 (EST)
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