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 ...

Cylinder seals were used as part of a pre-literate ... making it the world’s largest urban settlement at the time. It was the city of Gilgamesh, the hero from the Epic of Gilgamesh, often ...