Da Gilgamesh (sumerisch Bilgamesh) wor a groussa Kini und Hejd vo Uruk, Mesopotamien, dea wo zwischn 2800 and 2500 BC glebt hod.[1] Es is de Haptpeason im Gilgamesch-Epos, des wo ois ejtasdes Weak vo da Wejdliteratua guit.[2]

Da Gilgamesch im Louvre, Paris

Da Gilgamesch wor oana vo de wichtigstn Heascha vo de Sumera und is in Mesopotamien vageddlicht worn. Zwischn Legendn und Woarheit ko heit neama so genau untaschiedn wean.

Da Gilgamesch hod de easchde Stodmaua ibahapts baut. Se wor 11,3 km lang, 9 m houch und von an 9 m diafn Grobn umgebn. So hod a Uruk im Schutz vo da Maua za an groussn Zentrum vo Mesopotamien gmocht, za ana Wiagn vo da Zivuilisation, mid an bliahadn Handl, Handweak und ana funktioniaradn Birokratie.

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  1. Myths from Mesopotamia, Revised, Oxford University Press 2000, ISBN 0-19-283589-0 „Precise dates cannot be given for the lifetime of Gilgamesh, but they are generally agreed to lie between 2800 and 2500 BC.“
  2. First lines of oldest epic poem found , The Independent, 16 November 1998. Obgruafa am 20 August 2014.  „The beginning of the world's first truly great work of literature - the 4,000-year-old Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, the poem on which the story of Noah and the Flood was probably based - has been discovered in a British Museum storeroom.“