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The World's Largest Book!!

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World's Largest Book  located in  Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma)  at the Kuthodaw Pagoda. Kuthodaw Pagoda Largest Book    The Kuthodaw Pagoda is a golden temple. It  was built 1857 by King Mindon Min. It  features a collection of 730 marble tablets surrounding the base of its structures, double-sided with text. today the sprawling book still stands, and the writing has been refilled with simple black ink so that while the opulent glory may have disappeared, the messages of the writings themselves live on for future generations. 

The First Literature Work of the World.

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' Epic of Gilgamesh'  is t he earliest known work of literature. It   is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia that is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature and the second oldest religious text, after the Pyramid Texts. The  Deluge  tablet of the  Gilgamesh  epic in  Akkadian Because paper books did not exist at the time, the whole tale is told on 12 tablets. Today, the Epic of Gilgamesh is available on a digital tablet or e-reader.