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Detail of a temple wall from the Sumerian city of Uruk in Mesopotamia. The temple that dates back to the late 15th century BCE was dedicated to worshiping the Sumerian goddess Inanna, known as the Lady of Heaven. The Pergamon Museum, Berlin, GERMANY.
Gilgamesh is the semi-mythic King of Uruk in Mesopotamia best known from The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2150-1400 BCE) the great Babylonian poem that predates Homer's writing by 1500 years and, therefore, stands as the oldest piece of epic world literature. Gilgamesh features in several Sumerian poems but is best known from the epic.