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

A carving of the tale of Gilgamesh Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP (Glasg) via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 The first great masterpiece of world literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh ...

Smith located the heart of the epic in Gilgamesh's journey to a distant cedar ... with ambitious plans to write a series of books on Assyrian and Babylonian history and culture.

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

If the best-known glories of ancient Egypt are the pyramids, the mummies and the gold of Tutankhamun, then ancient ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

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 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 ...