Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh.

The first date in literature appears in the 5,000-year-old Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh.

The ancient Sumerian epic had been provided with an intralinear Akkadian translation during the course of the second millennium.

A Sumerian epic celebrates the achievement: Before that time writing on clay had not yet existed, But now, as the sun rose, so it was!

While there he translated classical poetry, such as the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, into French.

The garden of trees with gold, silver, and diamond leaves recalls a similar garden in the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh.

The Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh from the same millennium celebrated the enchanted vineyard whose wine was the source of immortality.

The ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh gives an account of it, as does the Old Testament.

Try tackling "Gilgamesh," the Sumerian epic that stands on a plane with the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey."

And they had a most interesting variation of the Sumerian epic of Gilgamish and Enkidu which I had not heard about before.

Another tablet from the same collection, number 8886 was documented by Edward Chiera in "Sumerian Epics and Myths", number 46.

Cheira, Edward., Sumerian Epics and Myths, University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Publications, 1934.

Edward Chiera published tablet CBS 7924B from the hymn in "Sumerian Epics and Myths".

Studying pre-Babylonian Mesopotamia, renowned scholar Thorkild Jacobsen used Sumerian epic, myth, and historical records to identify what he has called primitive democracy.

Plenty of literature deals with the subject, from the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamish to the poems of Homer and the writings of the Old Testament.

The mythic Bull of the Heavens plays a role in the ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, dating as far back as 2150 BC.

The Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld" - from the Sumerian Epic Angalta Kigalshe in a new version by (Lin Carter) "

In the Sumerian epic entitled Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, in a speech of Enmerkar, an incantation is pronounced that has a mythical introduction.

A place called Adana is mentioned by name in a Sumerian epic, the Epic of Gilgamesh, but the geography of this work is too imprecise to identify its location.

Unlike his successors Enmerkar, Lugalbanda, Dumuzid, the Fisherman and Gilgamesh, Mesh-ki-ang-gasher is not known from Sumerian epics or legends besides the King List.

The relationship between the semi-divine hero Gilgamesh and his "intimate companion" Enkidu in the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh has been interpreted as a sexual one by some modern scholars.

He is also mentioned in a section of the original Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, Bilgamesh and Aga, as the father of the Aga who laid siege to Uruk.

There exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 BCE) into Southwest Asian languages of the second millennium BCE.

There are two broad camps of thought, one that identifies the genre's roots in early fantastical works such as the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (earliest Sumerian text versions c. 2150-2000 BCE).