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I welcome Jack Meinhardt’s essay on the Gilgamesh epic (“Gilgamesh—Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before,” July/August 2005), but I take issue with the statement in the footnote on page 43 that Stephen Mitchell’s decision to omit Tablet 12 from his translation is “somewhat arbitrary.”
Emerald-green gardens, with flowering shrubs and fluttering songbirds, still bloom on a frescoed wall from Pompeii’s Casa del Bracciale d’Oro, nearly 2,000 years after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Maya settlement
Northern Guatemala
c. 250–900 A.D.
6 square miles of excavated area; about 3,000 buildings, including pyramid temples, palaces, ball courts and causeways
Tikal was used as the setting for the rebel base in the first Star Wars movie, Star Wars IV: A New Hope.
Since the mid-19th century, ancient Maya ruins have been well known, but only recently have we begun to know the Maya.
