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 ...

Locked within the characters lay the Epic of Gilgamesh—now considered by many to be the world’s oldest epic poem, but hidden to scholars at that time. The tale of the demigod Gilgamesh could ...

The events revolve around King Gilgamesh of Uruk - an area corresponding to southern Iraq. The myth is based on a real king who ruled sometime between 2,800 and 2,500 BC. The Dream tablet recounts ...

The myth of Taurus has several origins. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the goddess Ishtar sends Taurus, the ‘Bull of Heaven,’ to kill Gilgamesh for his rejection of her advances. The bull is torn ...