An ancient, epic poem from Mesopotamian mythology that is considered one of the earliest works of literature in human history. This story is centred around the legendary king of Uruk, who is ...

Gilgamesh's domain, Uruk, was a real place that grew into a vast urban center during the 4th millennium BCE and is considered by many to be the world's first real city.

These included Kish, Uruk, Ur, Nippur, ... in Sumerian in the early second millennium B.C. centered on the adventures and accomplishments of a legendary king of Uruk, Gilgamesh.

The Epic Of Gilgamesh - written by a Middle Eastern scholar 2,500 years before the birth of Christ - commemorated the life of the ruler of the city of Uruk, from which Iraq gets its name. Now, a ...

Abandoning Uruk, Gilgamesh sets off to discover the secret of immortality; he hopes to learn it from a distant ancestor, Uta-napishtim, to whom the gods granted immortality after he survived a ...

Presents an English version of the epic poem which dates from the third millenium B.C., telling of the adventures of Gilgamesh, the great king of Uruk, and his search for immortality. Date 1972 Call ...

The imposing Eliot Hall, who grew up in West Marin, stars as the eponymous Gilgamesh, the unquestioned ruler of Uruk. He’s powerful but aware of his mortality.

Bartle Bull’s “Land Between the Rivers” is a sweeping and superbly written epic, from Gilgamesh fortifying Uruk, the “ur-city of all humanity,” around 2700 B.C. to the murder of Iraq’s ...

Sonnet Xu writes on Gilgamesh and the lesson it teaches Stanford students. ... Gilgamesh returns to Uruk, wiser and humbled by his experiences.