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 ...

An ancient story takes shape in Marin Shakespeare Company’s capacious black box on Fourth Street in San Rafael. A retelling of one of the oldest tales in the historical era — since the advent of ...

The oldest surviving fragments of the Babylonian epic we now call Gilgamesh date back to the 18th century -- the 18th century before the Christian era, that is, more than 3,700 years ago. Etched in ...

Cuneiform tablets are among the earliest surviving written records in human history. By recreating tablets from the Epic of Gilgamesh in gingerbread, the process highlights how cuneiform was formed, ...

Greg Jenner is joined in the ancient world by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Marjolein Robertson to learn all about the famous Mesopotamian poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. Sumerian poems about a ...