It takes the average reader 1 hour and 52 minutes to read The Hittite Gilgamesh by Gary M. Beckman
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
From the late third millennium BCE on, the adventures of the hero Gilgamesh were well known throughout Babylonia and Assyria, and the discovery of Akkadian-language fragments of versions of his tale at Boğazkoy, Ugarit, Emar, and Megiddo demonstrates that tales of the hero's exploits had reached the periphery of the cuneiform world already in the Late Bronze Age. A century of excavation at the Hittite capital of Hattusa (mod. Boğazkoy) has yielded more textual sources for Gilgamesh than are known from all other Late Bronze Age sites combined. The Gilgamesh tradition was imported to Hattusa...
The Hittite Gilgamesh by Gary M. Beckman is 112 pages long, and a total of 28,224 words.
This makes it 38% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 34 minutes to read The Hittite Gilgamesh aloud.
The Hittite Gilgamesh is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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