Fun Fact Β· From the Tablets
The Epic of Gilgamesh predates Homer by over 1,000 years
The Story
The earliest poems about Gilgamesh were written in Sumer around 2100 BCE, over a thousand years before Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. They tell of a legendary king's quest for immortality.
One of the cuneiform fun facts collected in Massarrah.