The United States has returned a portion of the "Epic of Gilgamesh" back to the Republic of Iraq, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. The rare Sumerian poem was illegally transported ...

The United States has returned a portion of the "Epic of Gilgamesh" back to the Republic of Iraq, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. The rare Sumerian poem was illegally transported ...

A federal court ordered the forfeiture of an ancient Sumerian tablet bearing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh in cuneiform script after it determined that the artifact was illegally imported, the Justice ...

A federal judge has ordered that an ancient cuneiform tablet inscribed with a portion of the Sumerian epic poem of Gilgamesh that had been illegally sold to Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., be forfeited to ...

The United States will return a 3,500-year-old clay tablet that was looted from an Iraqi museum in 1991. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the ...

Introduction : The story ; The text ; The rediscovery ; The early translations -- Initial reception (1884-1935) : The first literarization ; Babel and Bible ; The German connection ; The spread of the ...

Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Marvel Comics all owe a debt to Gilgamesh, a hero in Mesopotamian mythology and the protagonist of the world’s first epic story. Gilgamesh was a historic king of the ...