if one cross-references his paternity with another ancient text, the Sumerian King List, 3 one finds that Gilgamesh is also listed as the son of the “divine phantom lord of Kulaba.” ...

Archaeologists have found artefacts that tell us about Ancient Sumer life, rulers and beliefs. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a collection of stories written about a superhuman king called Gilgamesh.

Mesopotamia—“the land between two ... and was the crowning glory of the king’s homage to Babylon’s ancient Akkadian past. Pergamon Museum, Berlin Photograph by BPK/Scala, Florence It ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

They appeared to him to have come from ancient Mesopotamia, and to have been produced ... which was built around 2100 B.C. by Gudea, king of Lagash, the city-state of which Girsu was the capital.