An exhibition to Thirst after  Our 2018 TOI litfest and my recent volume for the tricentenary of Mumbai’s mystical Parsi well were both titled Waternamah. This week I again immersed myself in  the ...

An ancient, epic poem from Mesopotamian mythology that is considered one of the earliest works of literature in human history. This story is centred around the legendary king of Uruk, who is ...

Archaeologists in Iraq believe they have found the tomb of King Gilgamesh, the subject of the world's oldest "book".

It explores the certainly exaggerated exploits of a legendary Sumerian king who reputedly built one of the world’s first walled cities, Uruk.

Gilgamesh is the semi-mythic King of Uruk best known as the hero of the the great Babylonian Poem and Mesopotamian Epic: The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2150-1400 BCE) ...

The tale tells of an apparently real-life king of Uruk, now in present-day Iraq. When Gilgamesh’s subjects object to his tyranny, the gods create a part-animal wild-man, Enkidu, who will be his ...

At the heart of the epic is the story of a friendship between Gilgamesh, who is a demigod and the king of Uruk, and his wild-man sidekick, Enkidu.

Visitors first intrude upon a large-scale mud sculpture representing Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, holding his hands to his heart and hunched forward in grief.

Early poems in Sumerian about a king of Uruk called Gilgamesh were later woven into an epic tale, a version of which was found in Nineveh in the 19th century.