The Epic of Gilgamesh

The legendary Sumerian king Gilgamesh is the hero of a mythopoetic epic, one of the oldest literary works, a thousand years older than Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Two-thirds god and one-third man, he sought immortality and wanted to improve people's lives. His adventures, both real and fictional, were written about in the 3rd millennium BC in cuneiform on clay tablets. Only in the 19th century were 12 such tablets found, and this became a real sensation. Researchers have found parallels with the Epic in the Bible, in particular in the descriptions of the story of Adam and Eve, the Great Flood, etc.