Stal Gallery opened its latest exhibition on 13 April in Muscat, presenting “Gilgamesh: Symbols and Connotations” by ...

Among these was the Flood Tablet, deciphered by George Smith in 1872, which alerted him to the existence of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh. Long days working with the ancient puzzle were relieved ...

Like all ancient Mesopotamian literature, the epic of Gilgamesh was lost to historical memory with the eclipse of the ancient cultures of Assyria and Babylonia in the centuries before Christ.

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

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 ...

A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried ...

What it is: Also known as the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this fragment of a baked clay tablet contains cuneiform ...

ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...

Convinced that he must have spirited away some ancient treasure on his first trip ... Smith sought a unifying theme in the saga of the hero Gilgamesh's adventures. Smith located the heart of ...

You know all those ancient flood myths, Noah’s Ark, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Atlantis sinking into the sea? Well, turns out they might not just be myths after all. Scientists have found actual ...

If the best-known glories of ancient Egypt are the pyramids, the mummies and the gold of Tutankhamun, then ancient ...