What happened to the tablets of Gilgamesh?

The tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh were discovered in the ruins of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh in present-day Iraq in the mid-19th century. They were then translated and studied by various scholars, leading to a greater understanding of one of the oldest known works of literature. Some of the original tablets are now housed in museums such as the British Museum in London and the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.