"This HISTORY special explores the real story of these flesh-eating horrors, beginning at the dawn of civilisation and continuing right through to today.
While the starting point for our modern view is George A. Romero's 1968 movie The Night of the Living Dead, the first written reference can be found in the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, mankind's oldest work of literature.
We are then taken through the myths of various cultures across the ages and it's no surprise that Europe's Black Plague became one of the most prolific periods for zombie tales, because mankind was surrounded by sickness and death."
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