Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid
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You're Dead to Me · Epic of Gilgamesh: myths and heroes in ancient Mesopotamia · 13 Mar 2026
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This raises fun in the nerdy sense questions about authorship in ancient Mesopotamia, where
It's more like people are links in a chain in the life story of a story.
The tale itself, the story itself is more important than the author, as well as the kind of divine origins, the perceived divine origins of everything that gets written down, all knowledge, wisdom and literature.
Gilgamesh is basically a late variation of like the signs used to write Bilgamesh.
And there are around five Sumerian poems that tell distinct stories about Bilgamesh.
But they're not strung together as one narrative until the later Akkadian or Babylonian version that we talked about.
Nobody really knows the answer to that.
He's referenced in what we would consider a semi-historical document, which we call it the Sumerian King List.
Basically a list of kings in what is now southern Iraq, what we would call Sumer.
But it begins with these mythical primordial kings like...
Alulim, who ruled for 30,000 years, or Etana, who ruled for 400 years.
So we know that these are probably not real people, or maybe they are based on real people, but these are not their real reigns.
And Gilgamesh is referenced on this having ruled for 126 years, which maybe if it's lunar months is potentially doable.
Oh, really?
Possibly also not.
There are real kings on the list, though, that we know existed that are corroborated from other sources, like King Sargon, who ruled for a couple of decades around 2300 BCE.
He's referenced.
We know him from other documents, and there are a whole bunch like that.
So is he a literary character who moved into the history books, or is he a historical figure who took on legendary proportions?
That's interesting.
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