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 ...

Locked within the characters lay the Epic of Gilgamesh—now considered by many ... became an expert in the cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, but also made a discovery that turned ...

We are fortunate in that both the Gilgamesh Epic and Sumerian King List mention Gilgamesh in correct name and also in correct time (i.e., postdiluvian or postflood). They also both name his father ...

The tablet contains a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh written in the Akkadian language in cuneiform script - a system of writing on clay used in ancient Mesopotamia. Scholars discovered the epic ...

The Epic of Gilgamesh, known as the oldest story in ... Literary Hub Sumer was a civilization that arose in southern Mesopotamia and is said to have laid the foundations of Mesopotamian civilization.

The earliest known writing system is thought to be Sumerian cuneiform ... It was the city of Gilgamesh, the hero from the Epic of Gilgamesh, often cited as the first major composition.