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 ...

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 ...

Most of the early clay tablets in our collection, like this one, come from the city of Uruk, roughly halfway between modern Baghdad and Basra. Uruk was just one of the large rich city-states of ...

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.

Today, these imprints, pressed into clay tablets over 5,000 years ago ... emerged in the city of Uruk around 3000 BCE, in what is now southern Iraq. The system comprised hundreds of pictographic ...

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 ...