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Gilgamesh (238 words) |
 | Gilgamesh is the son of Ninsun, a comparatively obscure goddess who had a palace-temple in Uruk. |
| Gilgamesh is fifth on the King-List and reigned in Uruk around 2700 BCE (or some hundred years or so later) for 126 years (his son reigned a mere 30 years). |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh was preserved on clay tablets which were deciphered in the last century. |
| Gilgamesh: A Who2 Profile (205 words) |
| Gilgamesh is the central figure and hero of the Assyro-Babylonian myth The Epic of Gilgamesh, a story written on clay tablets that is considered to be the earliest known literary work. |
| Gilgamesh was probably a real person who lived between 2,500 and 2,700 B.C., the fifth king in the First Dynasty of Uruk (modern-day Iraq). |
| The tablets are significant as an archeological record, and the story is significant because of parallels found in the Bible (especially the story of the Great Flood) and because it touches on the universal themes of the meaning of life, the dual nature of humanity and the differences between the divine and the human. |
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