IT IS THE FIRST WORK of literature ever written down, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and it's a masterpiece. Ironically, it stems from that cradle of civilization, Mesopotamia, which has gone by many ...

A hymn dedicated to the ancient city of Babylon has been discovered after 2,100 years. Sung to the god Marduk, patron deity of the great city, the poem describes Babylon's flowing rivers, jewelled ...

The Epic of Gilgamesh is a Babylonian poem composed in ancient Iraq, millennia before Homer. It tells the story of Gilgamesh, king of the city of Uruk.

The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh is rated the oldest literature on record, dating from the third millennium BC. It is preserved on 11 clay tablets discovered in the 19th century - and it seems that ...

A newly retrieved clay tablet containing 20 lines depicting the story of Gilgamesh has been discovered. The story of Gilgamesh is considered as the world's oldest epic poems and literature's first ...

The Gilgamesh tablet is part of a section of a Sumerian poem from the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is one of the world’s oldest works of literature, and one of the oldest religious texts.

Soon, however, Gilgamesh takes his beloved friend with him to the Cedar Forest to kill the guardian, the monster Humbaba, in defiance of the gods. Enkidu dies as a result.

The “Gilgamesh Dream Tablet” was displayed at the Museum of the Bible in Washington until the authorities seized it in 2019.

The myth is based on a real king who ruled sometime between 2,800 and 2,500 BC. As the story goes, King Gilgamesh was a demigod of superhuman strength whose powers were inherited from his mother.

Unlike the Epic of Gilgamesh, the researchers believe that the Hymn to Babylon was written by a single author rather than by collecting traditional texts over time.