when a 12-tablet version was found in the ruins of the library of an Assyrian king, Assur Banipal, in northern Iraq. The events revolve around King Gilgamesh of Uruk - an area corresponding to ...

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 ...

But Uruk doesn’t seem to be a city on wheels. The only evidence we have that it was are a handful of etchings that vaguely resemble four-wheeled wagons, inscribed on poorly dated clay tablets.

At Uruk sites, archaeologists previously found a large-scale monumental precinct dating to the later 4th millennium BC as well as thousands of clay tablets containing some of the earliest written ...