AT ONE OF the earliest points of our recorded history, the remarkable culture of Mesopotamia flourished, and one of its many versatile and precocious achievements was Gilgamesh, our first recognisable ...
Reading The Epic of Gilgamesh for the first time ‘after more than 2,000 years of oblivion ... His book explores even stranger parallels between Noah and the much earlier Mesopotamian ark builders.
The oldest known written story, the epic of Gilgamesh, warns against cutting down the cedar forests of Mesopotamia. But the moral was disregarded and what was once the city of Uruk is now just a ...