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Ancient era · c. 2,100 BCE

Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia that is the world's oldest surviving example of narrative literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, some of which may date to the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BCE). These independent stories were later used as source material for a combined epic in Akkadian.

Epic of Gilgamesh
Epic of Gilgamesh · Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
c. 2,100 BCE
Where
Mesopotamia
Era
Ancient

Topics

Mesopotamiac. 3,500 BCE – 539 BCEIraq2,350 BCE – today

Before and after

Akkadian Empire2,334 BCE – 2,154 BCECode of Hammurabic. 1,754 BCEShow on timeline

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