Uruk, located in southern Iraq on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, was the largest city in the world at the beginning of the third millennium BCE. According to the chronology presented in the ...

Gilgamesh is the story of a king, tyrannous though magnificent, lording it over the people of Uruk. It tells of how he came to love Enkidu, provided by the gods as a kind of opposing twin for him. The ...

In the epic narrative mentioned above, Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk was tall and magnificently built. He was a brave warrior and protected other warriors who served him. He opened mountain passes and ...

A worldwide deluge soon followed. Like old photos slowly unfading before our eyes, the Biblical deluge, the Deluge of Gilgamesh, the Chaldean inscriptions from ancient Uruk, the Great Destruction of ...

What with all the unnerving Trumpian/Muskian hoopla to process, I’ve found it more difficult to read for pleasure since Nov. 5, 2024.

Alex DeFrank returned for his second game of Jeopardy! trying to get his second win under his belt with $42,402 currently in ...

The oldest known written story, the epic of Gilgamesh, warns against cutting down the cedar forests of Mesopotamia. But the moral was disregarded and what was once the city of Uruk is now just a ...

“The people of Uruk hide their kids & hide their wives ... Host Ken Jennings told him that it was The Epic of Gilgamesh. He wagered $5,000, bringing him to $3,600, back to second place.

Fate/Grand Order (FGO) started as a blockbuster mobile game by Type-Moon and Aniplex, launched in 2015 in Japan and 2017 globally. Its anime adaptations bring to life key story arcs from the game’s ...