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Who is Gilgamesh?
He's a Sumerian who ruled the city-state Uruk
Who did the gods create to challenge Gilgamesh?
Enkidu
What is Gilgamesh?
He is half god and half man
Who challenged the demon Humbaba and got killed by the gods?
Gilgamesh's friend Enkidu.
Where were the twelve tablets found?
They were found at Nineveh in the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
Gilgamesh travels across the waters of death to speak to who?
The wise man Utnapishtim.
When was writing invented?
The Sumerians invented writing at around 3100 BCE.
What did secrect did Utnapishtim offer Gilgamesh?
He offered him the secrect of a plant called “The-Old-Man-Will-Be-Made-Young.”
What was the earliest example of a postal envelope?
A letter would be written on a small clay tablet and enclosed in a clay envelope.
Gilgamesh finds the plant, but what happens next?
A Serpent steals it from him, and so he shall die as a mortal.