Slaying monsters, immortality and sex: the wild ride of Gilgamesh

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Louise Pryke is one of few people in the world who can read the ancient language in which The Epic of Gilgamesh is written. The mammoth, wild tale is still being deciphered from thousands of clay tablets

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