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, for ...

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 ...

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, the artefact features sections of the Sumerian poem - parts of which mirror stories from the Old Testament - in cuneiform script. Hobby Lobby was previously ...

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.