Introduction. 1. The history of the epic -- 2. the discovery of the tables -- 3. the historical background -- 4. the literary background -- 5. the hero of epic -- 6. the principal Gods of the epic -- ...

Introduction : The story ; The text ; The rediscovery ; The early translations -- Initial reception (1884-1935) : The first literarization ; Babel and Bible ; The German connection ; The spread of the ...

There are remarkable similarities between the biblical story of the flood and the more ancient version of Gilgamesh. The Babylonian epic Gilgamesh was written around 2000 BCE and has survived in ...

Scholars have struggled to identify fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh — one of the world’s oldest literary texts. Now A.I. has brought an “extreme acceleration” to the field. By Erik Ofgang In 1872, ...