1. The Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh contains many details.

2. Tablet inscribed with the Epic of Gilgamesh

3. As the Epic of Gilgamesh shows, this period was associated with increased war.

4. Gilgamesh himself was described as a lustful, violent demigod, or part god, part man.

5. Legends of ancient heroes include the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

6. (Both Enmerkar and Gilgamesh are credited with having built the walls of Uruk). c.

7. According to it, Gilgamesh visited his ancestor Utnapishtim, who had been granted eternal life after surviving the Flood.

8. In literature, Bahrain was the site of the ancient land of Dilmun mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

9. Known as the "Flood Tablet." BabelStone/Wikimedia Is it realistic to anticipate the eventual discovery of a complete manuscript of The Epic of Gilgamesh? Iclal Vanwesenbeeck discusses that and the most recent new discoveries with Gilgamesh translator and Assyriologist Benjamin Foster.

10. What George Smith discovered among the tablets was an ancient story about a great flood - the Epic of Gilgamesh.

11. The Epic of Gilgamesh refers to trade with far lands for goods, such as wood, that were scarce in Mesopotamia.

12. Capers were cited as a food in the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh, meaning humans have been using them as an ingredient for more than 4,000 years or so

13. George Smith (26 March 1840 – 19 August 1876) was a pioneering English Assyriologist who first discovered and translated the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest-known written works of literature.

14. After experts had carefully examined the Gilgamesh Epic, opinions became divided over which Flood account was older, the Mesopotamian one mentioned in the Epic, or the one found in the Bible.

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16. In the twelfth book of the epic of Gilgamesh he is granted an interview with his dead one-time companion, who “describes the gloomy abode of the afterworld, and tells of the various futures that await the dead, according to the manner of their ends.”—The Encyclopedia Americana, edition of 1929, Volume 12, page 654.