Later, Utu-napishtim tells Gilgamesh of his experience ... much older cuneiform tablets with similar flood stories that ...

It was only later that the Flood story was woven by storytellers into the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the first great epic of world literature. Smith's tablet forms the eleventh chapter of that story.

Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century, shattered clay tablets covered in indecipherable writing held one of the world’s greatest treasures. Locked within the characters lay the Epic of ...

It is also a source of much conjecture, for the hero king on whom the story is based, Gilgamesh is quoted as being two-thirds god and one-third human. In the poem, Gilgamesh is described as the ...

The Epic of Gilgamesh, considered the oldest literary work of humanity, has been studied for centuries. Its influence has ...

After Enkidu sickens and dies, Gilgamesh becomes anxious about his own impending death and goes on a quest to seek out Utnapishim, legendary survivor of the great flood and holder of the secret of ...