The Epic of Gilgamesh is a Babylonian poem composed in ancient Iraq, millennia before Homer. It tells the story of Gilgamesh, king of the city of Uruk. To curb his restless and destructive energy, the ...

A New York federal court court has ordered Hobby Lobby to hand over an ancient Gilgamesh artifact that was bought at an auction for $1.6 million in 2014. Officials said the artefact was looted from ...

The United States will formally return an illegally imported 3,500-year-old tablet recounting the epic of Gilgamesh to Iraq this week, the United Nations' cultural body UNESCO says. The tablet ...

My earliest brush with the world of Gilgamesh stems from a now hazy memory of a story telling session. It was a particularly hot Friday afternoon and I had just returned home from a trip to Neelkhet.

Well before Noah, another ancient shipbuilder, named Utnapishtim, sailed the waters of a universal flood. His tale was told by the Babylonians in the second millennium B.C., or even earlier, and ...

A looted 3,500-year-old cuneiform clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia, which was seized by authorities in 2019 and officially forfeited by US retail chain Hobby Lobby in July, was due to be ...

Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful New York Times editor Enrich (Servants of the Damned) offers a chilling deep dive into “a largely ...

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