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 ...

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 ...

To find out, experts studied seals from Uruk, one of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia ... It was the city of Gilgamesh, the hero from the Epic of Gilgamesh, often cited as the first major ...