أكثر من 3،700 سنة مضت على ملحمة كاكامش المحفورة والمكتوبة على الالواح الطينية في شكل كتابة مسمارية، وهى قصة قديمة للملك الذي حاول البحث عن الخلود والى صيغة تفاهم مع حتمية الموت.
he oldest surviving fragments of the Babylonian epic we now call Gilgamesh date back to more than 3,700 years ago. Etched in the wedge-sha…ped letters known as cuneiform on clay tablets, Gilgamesh stands as the earliest classic of world literature. Surprisingly, it is a classic still in the making, for scholars continue to discover and piece together shards — in Akkadian, Sumerian and other ancient languages — that occasionally add a few more lines to this story of an ancient Middle Eastern king’s quest for immortality and his coming to terms with the inevitability of death.
