Exactly one hundred and seventy years ago, on 1 October 1853, among the ruins of the ancient library of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria, at Nineveh, Hormuzd Rassam discovered the “Epic of Gilgamesh”, a poem from ancient Mesopotamia that is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature.Like many other artefacts, the text is […]

Gilgamesh, the King Who Wanted to Defeat Death