Gilgamesh

The Gilgamesh myth touches people even after so many centuries because it is about issues that touch all people in all times. These issues are the anguish of loss and death for all human beings. Myths reflect our will to understand what we cannot understand, and reconcile us to mortality. The earliest know Gilgamesh texts came from Sumer. The Sumerians were the first literate people of Mesopotamia, and their literature was preserved on clay tablets. …

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