In the Beginning... In this 1951 National Geographic magazine illustration, a survivor tells Gilgamesh (right) about the trials of the flood. H.M. HERGET/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE Composed in ...

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 ...