Just like in the Book of Genesis, the voyagers release ... In other words, the Epic of Gilgamesh may have been the source of ...

Staff Writers Molly Hanley and Rania Woodward take opposite sides in the debate between physical books and e-readers.

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

What makes Elif Shafak‘s books so engrossing is how expertly ... as well as the ancient poem “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, that ...

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 ...

Mythology, legends, fantasy and science fiction all include shapeshifters — humans or other creatures able to access (“shift” ...

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 ...

Poetry reading at Inglewood Junior School, Carlisle, in 1996 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic) Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is considered the ...