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

In a braid that will be repeated down the millennia, male bonding, mortal dread and violence are bound together like a garrote.

The oldest known written story, the epic of Gilgamesh, warns against cutting down the cedar forests of Mesopotamia. But the moral was disregarded and what was once the city of Uruk is now just a ...

And with one phrase from the man, the hidden secrets of Enkidu come into light. Fujimaru's entourage successfully has an audience with the wise king Gilgamesh ruling over Uruk. Fujimaru suggests to ...

Gilgamesh is the story of a king, tyrannous though magnificent, lording it over the people of Uruk. It tells of how he came to love Enkidu, provided by the gods as a kind of opposing twin for him. The ...