Gilgamesh is decidedly remote from our world and time. Uruk, the Mesopotamian city near the fertile banks of the Euphrates, where the poem’s action begins and ends, is one of the earliest cities in the world. Its citizens and their king live in close proximity to one another. Few barriers separate them, so that a…
via Who Were the Scribes Who Actually Wrote Down the Epic of Gilgamesh? — Literary Hub
