What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform ...

The map features Babylon and other significant cities and ... similar to the dark areas described in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Another explanation could be that the map included a comment on the ...

All modern scholarship on Babylonian literature stems from his ... just four years after he had been the first person to read The Epic of Gilgamesh in 2,500 years.

The ancient Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh (written around 2100 BC) tells the story of a man whose mother explains the meaning of his dreams to him. In Ancient Egypt, meanwhile, priests often acted ...