In the ancient land of Mesopotamia, Gilgamesh was a demigod of superhuman strength who built cities and defeated enemies. In writer Shirley Graetz’s mind, the Akkadian figure who stars in the ancient ...

Final Fantasy V turned thirty years old on December 6, 2022. Square Enix celebrated by turning the spotlight on one of the Final Fantasy‘s most iconic characters, Gilgamesh. In FFV, FFV‘s 30th ...

In last week’s column we considered the ancient Greek story of Deucalion and the wonderful ark, which saved the peoples of antiquity from a flood sent by the angry Olympian gods. We reflected on the ...

In the eleventh of the twelve tablets, Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh about the flood. Utnapishtim was a legendary king of Shuruppak in southern Iraq who survived a flood by making a boat. He explains ...

A U.S. District Court in New York has ordered the craft chain Hobby Lobby to forfeit the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, a rare cuneiform text from ancient Mesopotamia that was smuggled into the country from ...

In the eleventh of the twelve tablets, Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh about the flood. The gods create humans, Utnapishtim explains, but they soon recognize they had made a mistake. Humans became so ...