Today, when one thinks of the origin of sports and athletic competitions, the ancient Greeks often come to mind. Although ...

Nanna. A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveals the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, ...

The Metropolitan exhibition opens with a limestone statue of a full-bearded “priest king” believed to be ... was home to the legendary epic hero Gilgamesh. Located 150 miles south of present ...

The world premiere of "Gilgamesh," an opera inspired by the epic of the Sumerian King Gilgamesh, will take place on May 17 at the AKM Turkish Telecom Opera Stage. Composed and written by Ahmet Adnan ...

Gilgamesh is the story of a king, tyrannous though magnificent ... also indicates the linguistic genealogy of Gilgamesh through its Babylonian, Akkadian and Sumerian expressions. The excellent ...

Reading The Epic of Gilgamesh for the first time ‘after more than 2,000 ... and the Old Testament’s roll call of long-lived patriarchs is not necessarily modelled on Sumerian king lists. And Finkel is ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

The owner of 57 Burger King restaurants filed for bankruptcy, blaming high labor costs and inflation for forcing its company to go under, according to court documents. Consolidated Burger ...