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Enūma Eliš (Babylonian Creation)

Author

Unknown

Language

Akkadian

Year

c. 1153-1022 BCE

Country

Babylonia

Genre

Epic / Long-form / Standalone Poem

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Enūma Eliš, meaning "When on High", is a Babylonian creation myth from the late 2nd millennium BCE and the most complete surviving account of ancient near eastern cosmology. It was recovered by English archaeologist Austen Henry Layard in 1849 in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. A form of the myth was first published by English Assyriologist George Smith in 1876; active research and further excavations led to near completion of the texts and improved translation.