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.

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 ...

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 ...

The city’s wealth was reflected in its monumental architecture. Uruk’s ziggurat, dedicated to the Sumerian sky god Anu, was completed by the late fourth millennium B.C. Topped with its White ...

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.

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 ...

Dating back more than four thousand years, the Epic of Gilgamesh is the world’s oldest surviving work of literature. In it, Gilgamesh, heroic king of the city of Uruk, sets out on a quest to ...

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 ...