The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 27th century BC) 1 is famed as being the first corpus of epic literature known to man. It is also a source of much conjecture ...

The tale of the demigod Gilgamesh could have been lost ... not only became an expert in the cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, but also made a discovery that turned contemporary notions ...

Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet ... language in cuneiform script - a system of writing on clay used in ancient Mesopotamia thousands of years ago. Scholars discovered it in 1853, when a ...

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.

The tablet contains a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh written in the Akkadian language in cuneiform script - a system of writing on clay used in ancient Mesopotamia. Scholars discovered the epic ...