It tells the story of the demigod Gilgamesh who, among other adventures, embarks on a quest for immortality, during which he hears the story of a great flood that wiped out humanity. In the 1870s ...
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Gilgamesh flood tablet: A 2,600-year-old text that's eerily similar to the story of Noah's ArkIn other words, the Epic of Gilgamesh may have been the source of the Noah's ark story. You can read an English translation ...
It is also a source of much conjecture, for the hero king on whom the story is based, Gilgamesh is quoted as being two-thirds god and one-third human. In the poem, Gilgamesh is described as the ...
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Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian lifeWhen a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...
Mythology, legends, fantasy and science fiction all include shapeshifters — humans or other creatures able to access (“shift” ...
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