The Epic of Gilgamesh stone tablet belongs to Iraq, not to Hobby Lobby

This is so ******* cool! And the fact Hobby Lobby is losing a million plus isn't the important point. The fact there is more evidence of this epic story that predates the Bible is the important point.

NBC: NY Judge Approves Forfeiture of 3,500-Year-Old Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet From Hobby Lobby

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The cuneiform tablet, written in the ancient language of Akkadian and dating from around 1500 B.C., was illegally transported to the U.S. in 2003 and again in 2014, prosecutors said in a federal complaint. A false provenance letter was used to sell the tablet several times before Hobby Lobby bought it from a London-based auction house in 2014, prosecutors said. The artifact, known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, contains a portion of the Gilgamesh epic, considered one of the earliest surviving works of notable literature. The tablet was seized in 2019 from the Washington, D.C.-based Museum of the Bible, founded by Hobby Lobby executives, and is now being stored in Brooklyn, prosecutors said.

I know it says the tablet is 1500 years old but the story is much older.

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