Come over the hill toward Carcassonne, and you may think you have fallen asleep and woken inside a storybook. There, rising above the vineyards of southern France, stands an entire

According to the Sumerians’ own king list, kingship itself first descended from heaven at a city called Eridu, but it was Ur, a little further down the Euphrates, that rose

On a cold January morning in 1649, a king of England stepped out onto a scaffold outside his own palace in Whitehall, said a few quiet words, knelt down, and

The First King Gılgamış (in Turkish real name)THE FIRST KING IN HISTORY, HERO GILGAMES Gilgames sat in the part of the palace overlooking the Euphrates River, watching the calm flowing

WHO WAS GILGAMES? According to the legend, Gilgames, who is the king of the city of Uruk, is extremely wise, knowledgeable, wandered, sighted, yellow-eyed, cruel . Lugalbanda, whose father was

SUMMARY OF THE TABLETS THAT WERE WRITTEN Tablet I Gilgames was very knowledgeable, visited a lot, had the Uruk wall built, had the temples repaired, had them imprinted on a

Finding of Enkidu One day he could not believe he saw a hunter hunting in the forest. He was rubbing his eyes, ” Am I seeing it wrong?” No, it

Encounter with Gilgamesh There was a great festival in Uruk that day. All the people on the streets were laughing and joking and singing with joy . In the squares

Dragon Humbaba (Huvava) Gilgames was happy with Enkidu, but for some reason he could not sit still, thinking about things to do. He had found what to do now. In

Sky Bull Gilgames was no longer considered a hero, not only in the eyes of the people, but also in the eyes of the Sumerian Gods and Goddesses . Now