Among these was the Flood Tablet, deciphered by George Smith in 1872, which alerted him to the existence of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh. Long days working with the ancient puzzle were relieved ...

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 ...

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

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far back as 5000 BC.

Like all ancient Mesopotamian literature, the epic of Gilgamesh was lost to historical memory with the eclipse of the ancient cultures of Assyria and Babylonia in the centuries before Christ.

ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...

You know all those ancient flood myths, Noah’s Ark, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Atlantis sinking into the sea? Well, turns out they might not just be myths after all. Scientists have found actual ...

The 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Archaeologists have found artefacts that tell us about Ancient Sumer life, rulers and beliefs. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a collection of stories written ...

My students have been helping me catalogue ancient sculptures of the Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in Hamilton, Ohio." "I would say that The Epic of Gilgamesh, a 4000-year-old book that explains the ...