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 ...

Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, the 3,600-year-old religious text shows a section of a Sumerian poem from the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is one of the world's oldest works of literature and was ...

So many books to read, so little time ... that the first piece of literature ever written (or carved) is The Epic of Gilgamesh. As the title suggests, it’s a monumental tale about a King ...

with many of the key elements similar to the Noah story in the biblical Book of Genesis: The seventh-century B.C. Flood Tablet, shown here, unlocked the Epic of Gilgamesh for Smith. Overwhelmed ...

The clay artefact bears part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the world's oldest surviving works of literature. It was looted from an Iraqi museum during the 1991 Gulf War and smuggled through ...