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

Mumbaikars, as residents of the city are known, fret their kebabs and naans will lose the distinctive—not to mention delicious—barbecue char. Restaurateurs say they are being unfairly blamed for ...

A vast library was assembled in Assyria by King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2,700 years ago. The ...

The 16th International Istanbul Opera Festival, organized by the Turkish State Opera and Ballet, part of the Ministry of ...

In 1872, Smith was studying a particular tablet from Nineveh (modern Iraq ... We find in Gilgamesh the origins of a common culture - its offshoots, that go off into Homer, and the '1001 Nights ...

What he had uncovered would become known in the West as The Epic of Gilgamesh, the 3,200-year ... books on Assyrian and Babylonian history and culture. He had left Iraq, moreover, vowing never ...

The character of Someone explains the resilience of the clay myth, starting from when “the goddess Aruru pinches off a clump of clay to make a human” (from the Epic of Gilgamesh), which is universally ...

Wave Productions put on Enkidu, a staged play inspired by “The Epic of Gilgamesh” on April 17 and 18. The story follows the monster Enkidu, played by Communication third-year Oliver Tam and the ...