As Smith amassed all these pieces, a poem began to take ... It tells the story of the demigod Gilgamesh who, among other adventures, embarks on a quest for immortality, during which he hears ...

Abandoning Uruk, Gilgamesh sets off to discover the secret of immortality; he hopes to learn it from a distant ancestor, Uta-napishtim, to whom the gods granted immortality after he survived a ...

The Epic of Gilgamesh, dating back to the third ... The poem revolves around a hero’s quest for immortality. Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is ...