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 ...

What with all the unnerving Trumpian/Muskian hoopla to process, I’ve found it more difficult to read for pleasure since Nov. 5, 2024.

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 ...

Poetry reading at Inglewood Junior School, Carlisle, in 1996 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic) Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is considered the ...

The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from Babylon. Back to top Poetry might seem intimidating to study at first, but it’s like any other kind of writing that we analyse ...