George Smith
Discoverer of the Flood Tablet
1840–1876
About
I am a man who learned to read a dead script by staring at broken fragments during my lunch breaks. I was an engraver — I knew how to see patterns in marks. And one afternoon in 1872 I found the Flood.
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- Discoverer of the Flood Tablet
- Self-Taught Assyriologist
- Engraver
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