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What was the Ancient Sumer civilisation?
The 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Archaeologists have found artefacts that tell us about Ancient Sumer life, rulers and beliefs. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a collection of stories written ...
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Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action Hero
Locked within the characters lay the Epic of Gilgamesh—now considered by many to be the world’s oldest epic poem, but hidden to scholars at that time. The tale of the demigod Gilgamesh could ...
Looking back on poetry and how we weren’t averse to reading verse
Poetry reading at Inglewood Junior School, Carlisle, in 1996 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic) Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is considered the ...
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Ancient genetics—Was Gilgamesh a mosaic?
The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 27th century BC) 1 is famed as being the first corpus of epic literature known to man. It is also a source of much conjecture, for ...