But older than the Greek flood myth, and perhaps older than the account of Noah in Genesis, is the ancient Iraqi story of Utnapishtim, found in the epic poem Gilgamesh.

The king-hero Gilgamesh battling the ‘Bull of Heaven’. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY. The epic also provides the reader with a useful case study in what not to do if one is in the exceptional ...

Smith's rapture over the epic was shared by many; the story seems to confirm and offer origins, for Noah's flood. But for the scholar, discovery became complicated. When they set out to unearth the ...

Marina Warner on ‘Gilgamesh,’ the flood and what remains A replica of a cuneiform tablet similar to those excavated at Nineveh, now in Iraq, dating to 3100 B.C. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) ...

The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh David Damrosch, . . Holt, $26 (315pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-8029-2 ...

Now known as the Epic of Gilgamesh, this work was totally new to scholars. Believed to have been composed around 1800 B.C., it is one of the world’s oldest great literary works.

Is Christianity a copycat religion?” It is an essential question that critics of Christianity often ask, and rightly so. After ...

What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform inscriptions describing an epic flood that swept through Babylon. It is ...

What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform inscriptions describing an epic flood that swept through Babylon.It is ...