Epic of Gilgamesh
The "Epic of Gilgamesh" was discovered by Austen Henry Layard, Hormuzd Rassam, and W. K. Loftus in 1853. The central character of Gilgamesh was initially reintroduced to the world as ""Izdubar"", before the cuneiform logographs in his name could be pronounced accurately. The first modern translation was published in the early 1870s by George Smith. Smith then made further discoveries of texts on his later expeditions, which culminated in his final translation which is given in his book "The Chaldaean Account of Genesis" (1880).
Epic of Gilgamesh
The "Epic of Gilgamesh" has inspired many works of literature, art, and music, as Theodore Ziolkowski points out in his book "Gilgamesh Among Us: Modern Encounters With the Ancient Epic" (2011). It was only after World War I that the "Gilgamesh" epic reached a modern audience, and only after World War II that it was featured in a variety of genres.