An exhibition to Thirst after  Our 2018 TOI litfest and my recent volume for the tricentenary of Mumbai’s mystical Parsi well were both titled Waternamah. This week I again immersed myself in  the ...

The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

The Epic Of Gilgamesh - written by a Middle Eastern scholar 2,500 years before the birth of Christ - commemorated the life of the ruler of the city of Uruk, from which Iraq gets its name. Now, a ...

Uruk, located in southern Iraq on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, was the largest city in the world at the beginning of the third millennium BCE. According to the chronology presented in the ...

Gilgamesh defeats the bull, but Uruk is left in ruins, and Ishtar promises further retribution. Enkidu falls into delirium and dies, leaving Gilgamesh grief-stricken and desperate to escape death.

The name “Iraq” has ancient origins, probably from the Sumerian city of Uruk, birthplace of writing and seat of Gilgamesh. The Greeks called it Mesopotamia, the land “between the rivers ...

King Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes, is the last line of defense in the city of Uruk. Gilgamesh enlist the help of Heroic Spirits to protect his people from the Demonic Beast.

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.

Near the present-day city of Basra in Iraq, and about 12 kilometers southwest of the site of ancient Ur, is the site of Eridu (Eridug in Sumerian), the southernmost of all the great Mesopotamian ...

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.