Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

Stars were "the heavenly writing"; a sheep's liver was "the tablet of the gods". You have a date palm with two tops? People here are hostile to you. Your gate creaks? You're at risk of attack. It was ...

which was sacred to ancient Sumerians.) Even Enki, the Mesopotamian god of wisdom (and father of Ninkasi), was known to get drunk occasionally. Mesopotamians invented beer 300 years before ...

The Epic of Gilgamesh, considered the oldest literary work of humanity, has been studied for centuries. Its influence has ...

The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic ... the trend of the much more frequent concept of half-man half-god. A Mesopotamian example of this would be Adapa U-an, whereas a later well ...