More than a thousand years older than the Holy Bible, the Epic of Gilgamesh recounts a series of heroic acts and sufferings of the eponymous king of Uruk, in ancient Mesopotamia. The epic's protagonist is believed to have reigned between 2800 and 2500 BCE, as his name was mentioned in Sumerian king lists. The Epic of Gilgamesh was discovered along the Tigris River, when archaeological excavations revealed the ancient library of Ashurbanipal, the Assyrian king, and is believed to be, among other things, the earliest version complete version of the world's first and oldest epic. . The clay tablets were slowly translated from cuneiform and some of the epic was lost due to illegible, missing or broken fragments. The epic of Gilgamesh represents for Western Asia what the Homeric poems represent for ancient Greece or Roland for 12th century France: the glorification of a hero, the quintessence of the bravery of his people. The art of the anonymous author of this epic consists of a sober and precise pictorial description of the plot and settings. Literary critics have spoken of the realism of the fantastic, bringing into discussion the extraordinary stories of Hoffmann's travels or Swift's Gulliver. However, we find the same theme in The Epic of Gilgamesh. The oscillation between fairy tale and legend leans, in my opinion, towards legend. The fairy tale is certainly more imaginative, fabulous and its tangencies with the legend are precarious, while the legend never loses its historical echo. The epic does not have a place of honor in universal literature only because of its antiquity, but above all because of its mixture of fantastic, even dramatic, turns of events with thoughtful morality. Gilgamesh is the first tragic center...... middle of paper ......rarat and Mt. Nisir, located just 300 miles apart). Both heroes receive blessings after the flood, but they are very different. Utnapishtim is offered eternal life, while Noah is to multiply and fill the earth and dominate the animals. The widespread nature of Flood traditions throughout humanity is perfect evidence for the existence of a Flood from a historical perspective. It has even been claimed that either the author of the Bible knew about the Babylonian Flood, one way or another, or the two works had a common source. The Book of Genesis is considered primarily a historical work, while the Epic of Gilgamesh is considered mythological. For those who believe in the inspiration and infallibility of the Holy Bible, it should not be a revelation that God would preserve the true version of the flood in the traditions of his people..