The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fight among Bel and the Dragon | Honnuzd Rassam | Wallis Budge E.A.

The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fight among Bel and the Dragon are stories interpreted from the Assyrian tablets found in Nineveh by Tigris in the present Iraq. The tablets were at first found by A. H. Layard, Honnuzd Rassam and George Smith, Assistant in the Department of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum. They were found among the remnants of the Palace and Library of Ashur-bani-buddy (B.C. 668-626) at ~uyunji~ (Nineveh), between the years I848 and 1876. Somewhere in the range of I866 and 1870, the extraordinary "find" of tablets and pieces, exactly 20,000 in number, which Rassam made in 1852. was worked through by George Smith, who recognized a significant number of the authentic engravings of Shalmaneser II, Tiglath-Pileser III, Sargon II, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and different lords referenced in the Bible, and a few artistic structures of an incredible character, tales, and so forth. This fine book by the British Museum, imprinted in 1921 recounts to the account of the disclosure of the tablets and presents the extraordinary legends about the production of the world and the epic battle among Bel and the Dragon. Download the free PDF digital book here (36 pages/7.3MB):