New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. "The story of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest recorded legends known to man: fragments of the earliest version date back to a time not much later than the invention of true writing- about 3000 B.C. Discovered in the ruins of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) just over a century ago, Gilgamesh- an epic poem written on clay tablets in a...... More