![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first known versions of the epic of Gilgamesh were recorded even earlier, when Sumerian scribes carved the story of the legendary Mesopotamian king on tablets four thousand years ago. “O Uta-napishti, what should I do and where should I go?” Gilgamesh’s plaintive cry still rings out, three thousand years after it was captured in wedge-shaped cuneiform script on tablets of clay. From The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Standard Version, Tablet XI 1 “O Uta-napishti, what should I do and where should I go?įor there in my bed-chamber Death does abide,Īnd wherever turn, there too will be Death.” (Assyrian palace relief on display in the Louvre) The warrior king Gilgamesh grasping a lion in his left hand, and a snake in his right. Gilgamesh and medicine’s quest to conquer death May 16, 2019
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