Death and quest for immortality have fascinated poets ... and finally its retrieval in the 19th century. The poem tells the tale of King Gilgamesh, whose mother is a cow, the clever goddess ...

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 ...

But older than the Greek flood myth, and perhaps older than the account of Noah in Genesis, is the ancient Iraqi story of Utnapishtim, found in the epic poem ... immortality. So he put Gilgamesh ...

Through these misadventures, Gilgamesh strives for fame and immortality, but instead finds ... s narrative can be found in five Sumerian poems, and other versions include those written in Elamite ...

Afraid of death, Gilgamesh asks the sage Utnapishtim, the only survivor of the Great Flood, about the secret to immortality. Utnapishtim gives Gilgamesh a number of tasks, all of which he fails.