Enûma Eliš was discovered in Royal Library of Ashurbanipal at Niniveh by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 in pieces, and published by George Smith in 1876. The title Enuma Elish, meaning "when on high", is the incipit.
See:
- George Smith, "The Chaldean Account of Genesis", New York : Scribner, Armstrong 1876, pp. 19-36, 61-100