The Spectator Australia1d
The story of Noah’s flood will never go out of fashion
They put the behemoths in the hold along with the rhinos, the hippos and the elephants. It was a sensible decision to use ...
Live Science on MSN9mon
Gilgamesh flood tablet: A 2,600-year-old text that's eerily similar to the story of Noah's Ark
What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform ...
National Geographic news9mon
Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action Hero
Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century, shattered clay tablets covered in indecipherable writing held one of the world’s greatest treasures. Locked within the characters lay the Epic of ...
Deccan Herald26d
Nachiketa, Gilgamesh, and transcendence
The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh and the Indian Katha Upanishad present striking parallels in their explorations of death, mortality, and the nature of the soul. Gilgamesh, the mighty king of Uruk ...
Nature6y
Ancient genetics—Was Gilgamesh a mosaic?
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, for ...