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The Epic of Gilgamesh is a remarkable text which literary investigates the human search for an eternal living. The King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, and Enkidu, his friend are the sole heroes who have continually existed from the old Babylonian texts. Their commemoration in this epic story goes way back to the third millennium BC. The two travel together to the Spring of Youth where they defeat the “Bull of Heaven” and kill the monster Humbaba. Upon the death of Enkidu, Gilgamesh is sorrowful and frightened compelling him to undertake the quest “for eternal living.” Initially, the Epic of Gilgamesh was an old Sumerian Sumerian poem written about 700-1000 years after the historical kingdom reign in Cuneiform script. It's wholesome variant was discovered in Akkadian language on twelve stone tablets located at the Ashurbanipal library in 1849 at Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard, a British traveler. This is a timeless narrative of drama, morality, and real adventure which was translated from Arabic by Sumaya Shabandar. It is illustrated by Rakan Dabdoub, an Iraqi visual artist born in Mosul in 1930. He is a graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts (Baghdad) and the Academy of Fine Arts (Rome). Many of his artworks have been auctioned, including the "Untitled" which was sold for $21,250 in 2014 at Dubai's "Modern & Contemporary Arab, Iranian &Turkish Art." This paper summarizes the contents of this epic story through a description of the setting, period, the principal characters, and a brief description of the events that occurred. The main protagonist in the epic is the Uruk traditional ruler (Gilgamesh), who felled huge trees with his ally Enkidu so as to establish
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