Who is Enuma Elish

Enuma Elish is the Babylonian creation mythos.It was recovered by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 (in fragmentaryform) in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (Mosul,Iraq), and published by George Smith in 1876. When the seventablets that contain this were first discovered, evidence indicatedthat it was used as a “ritual”, meaning it was recited during aceremony or celebration. It supposedly was written no later thanthe reign of Nebuchadrezzar in the 12th century B.C. But there isalso little doubt that this story was written much earlier, duringthe time of the Sumerians. Drawing some new light on the ancients,Henry Layard found within the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipalin Nineveh, texts that were not unlike the Genesis creation in theBible. George Smith first published this text in 1876 under thetitle, The Chaldean Genesis, Akkadian text written in the oldBabylonian dialect. In the related links box below, I posted thetablet contents.