While Gilgamesh was apparently a real king who ruled the Sumerian city-state of Uruk around 2750 B.C., his deeds certainly didn't diminish in the retelling, and the real man was eventually ...

The narrative begins with Gilgamesh ruling over the city of Uruk as a tyrant. To keep him occupied, the Mesopotamian deities create a companion for him, the hairy wild man Enkidu.

Gilgamesh's domain, Uruk, was a real place that grew into a vast urban center during the 4th millennium BCE and is considered by many to be the world's first real city.

In Gilgamesh, scholars unearthed literary gold. A carving of the tale of Gilgamesh Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP (Glasg) via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 The first great masterpiece of ...

Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, one of the cradle of civilizations and the birthplace of the first writing system. In the fertile valley between the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates the earliest cities ...

Bartle Bull’s “Land Between the Rivers” is a sweeping and superbly written epic, from Gilgamesh fortifying Uruk, the “ur-city of all humanity,” around 2700 B.C. to the murder of Iraq’s ...

THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES: A Translation With Commentary. By Robert Alter. Norton, 1,064 pp. (in slipcase) $39.95. GILGAMESH: A New English Version. By Stephen Mitchell. Free Press, 290 pp. $24. For ...

Scholars have struggled to identify fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh — one of the world’s oldest literary texts. Now A.I. has brought an “extreme acceleration” to the field.

Bartle Bull’s “Land Between the Rivers” is a sweeping and superbly written epic, from Gilgamesh fortifying Uruk, the “ur-city of all humanity,” around 2700 B.C. to the murder of Iraq’s ...