An Ancient Dream, An Epic Poem, and Daring Searches by Intrepid Architects/Archaeologists, Unearth an Architectural Treasure and Solve a Centuries-Old Mystery
The story starts with a team of archaeologists from the British Museum returning to a site in Iraq eighty years after its initial excavation by the French. Those earlier excavations led to astonishing finds in both palatial structures and a major library of the world’s first written language – Sumerian – on 100,000 shards of clay.
This latter find precipitated a search for the region’s history and ancient structures – the latter, a search for several temples called The Eninnu. The search required the archaeologists learn to read a language that had been dead – or altered/modified by generations of conquests and world-wide population movements – over millennia. And, as an unintended consequence, discovered the world’s oldest, most-known, most-revered, most-translated piece of literature – The Epic of Gilgamesh.
5pm – Bar opens 6pm – Dinner ($40) 7:30pm – Program
