But Utnapishtim advised Gilgamesh that there was no one now who could assemble the gods to get anyone else immortality. So he put Gilgamesh to the test and said, ...

Utnapishtim’s wife feels sorry for him and persuades her husband to tell Gilgamesh about a plant that, while not giving eternal life, can make a person who eats it young again.

To find Utnapishtim, Gilgamesh must pass through Mashu, a mountain rooted in the underworld and towering towards heaven. Its guardians, a pair of scorpion warriors, warn him that no light touches ...

He resolves to find the one immortal man, Utnapishtim – the Babylonian Noah, made immortal after the flood. On his quest to find Utnapishtim, Gilgamesh first meets the wise woman Siduri, “the ...

IT IS THE FIRST WORK of literature ever written down, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and it's a masterpiece. Ironically, it stems from that cradle of civilization, Mesopotamia, which has gone by many ...

Well before Noah, another ancient shipbuilder, named Utnapishtim, sailed the waters of a universal flood. His tale was told by the Babylonians in the second millennium B.C., or even earlier, and ...

In the "Epic of Gilgamesh," written over 4,000 years ago, Enkidu, the great friend of the demigod Gilgamesh, dies. Afraid of death, Gilgamesh asks the sage Utnapishtim, the only survivor of the ...

Scholars have struggled to identify fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh — one of the world’s oldest literary texts. Now A.I. has brought an “extreme acceleration” to the field.

Utnapishtim’s Account of the Flood In the eleventh of the twelve tablets, Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh about the flood. The gods create humans, Utnapishtim explains, but they soon recognize they ...