Fun Fact Β· From the Tablets
The Epic of Gilgamesh predates Homer by 1,500 years
The Story
The world's first great epic poem was written in Sumer around 2100 BCE, over a thousand years before Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. It tells of King Gilgamesh's quest for immortality.
One of the cuneiform fun facts collected in Massarrah.