Epic of Gilgamesh
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is a Babylonian tale that was preserved on stone and clay tablets for thousands of years. The text of Gilgamesh's epic is on 12 incomplete Akkadian-language tablets, found at a destroyed library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in Nineveh. (Reigned 668-627 BC)
Written around 2500 BC, the tale takes place a few hundred years after Noah and the Great Flood.
The poem tells the story of Gilgamesh, the great sixth king of Uruk, a city in Mesopotamia, and his (perhaps fictional) quest for glory and immortal life.