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Gilgamesh

Hero of Sumerian, Hittite, Akkadian, and Assyrian legend, and lord of the Sumerian city of Uruk. The 12 verse books of the Epic of Gilgamesh were recorded in a standard version on 12 cuneiform tablets by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal's scholars in the 7th century BC, and the epic itself is older than Homer's Iliad by at least 1,500 years.

The epic contains the adventures of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, the wild man who became his friend, and an account of a Flood similar to that of the Old Testament.



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