A reissue of Andrew George's bestselling translation, now revised and expanded with the addition of newly discovered material.
Andrew George is Professor of Babylonian at SOAS (the School of Oriential and African Studies), part of the University of London. His research has taken him many times to Iraq to visit Babylon and other ancient sites, and to museums in Baghdad, Europe and North America to read the original clay tablets on which the scribes of ancient Iraq wrote.
A masterly verse translation
*The Times*
Andrew George has skillfully bridged the chasm between a scholarly
re-edition and a popular work
*London Review of Books*
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