Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, is abusing his authority, so the gods send Enkidu, a wild-man, to challenge him. Gilgamesh and Enkidu end up becoming friends and go on a journey to kill the monster ...

Gilgamesh, the mighty king of Uruk, and Nachiketa, the inquisitive seeker, confront the ultimate mystery: What lies beyond death?

is based on the Mesopotamian poem called the Epic of Gilgamesh. He was the king of Uruk, and, being born two-thirds god and one-third human, was considered to be superior to the rest of mankind.

60. PLACE: Uruk, city of Mesopotamia, valley of Euphrates. TIME: 3rd Millennium B.C. CIRCUMSTANCE: To show tke ruler's wilfulness and arrogance, the narrator suggests he sounds alarms without reason. ...

Uruk, located in southern Iraq on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, was the largest city in the world at the beginning of the third millennium BCE. According to the chronology presented in the ...