The Epic of Gilgamesh has been of interest to Christians ever since its discovery in the mid-nineteenth century in the ruins of the great library at Nineveh, with its account of a universal flood with significant parallels to the Flood of Noah's day. The Epic of Gilgamesh, a literary product of Mesopotamia, contains many of the same themes and motifs as the Hebrew Bible. The Gilgamesh Epic is named after its main character Gilgamesh, a king of the Sumerian city of Uruk, a historical figure who ruled sometime between 2800 and 2500 BC. The story itself “evolved” so to speak. It is an epic poem which narrates the story of the life of a man named Gilgamesh. The earliest copies of Gilgamesh are Sumerian and may be as old as the third millennium BC. Gilgamesh was the King of Uruk, a majestic Sumerian city that is located in present-day Iraq. The Epic of Gilgamesh stands out as one of the earliest-known pieces of writings in human history. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a series of Mesopotamian tales that recount the exploits of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk. The plot of The Epic of Gilgamesh deals a lot with the world of nature. We learn of his overwhelming power, his friendship with Enkidu, and his quest for eternal life. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about 'Bilgamesh' (Sumerian for 'Gilgamesh'), king of Uruk.These independent stories were later used as source material for a combined epic. Original article by Alessandro Brizzi.The Anunnaki are mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the classic version, then in the Akkadian language when Utanapištim tells the story of the Flood. This historic piece of poetic literature actually predates Homer’s earliest writings by 1,500 years. According to this tradition, the Anunnaki had set fire to the earth before the arrival of the storm. We also read of a great flood that devastated the region. —The Epic of Gilgamesh, translated by N. K. Sandars (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1972), p. 61. Considering the fact that Enkidu, the best friend and companion of the main character, was created as a wild man and lived in the forest before encountering Gilgamesh, it seems especially interesting to speculate on the question of how the natural world was presented in this epic poem. The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia.Dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur (circa 2100 BC), it is often regarded as the first great work of literature. In the Epic of Gilgamesh the seven sages are called "counselors," and in the earlier Sumerian poems, Enkidu is also a counselor and a spiritual servant to Gilgamesh.