The mid-nineteenth century was a time when very many Western people began to doubt the historical truth of the Bible. Was it really the case that we were all descended from Adam and Eve, whom God ...

This tale is about the limits of ambition; it is about power, about piety, and about man's inhumanity to man and life's timeless lessons to man. Our tale is also about the beauty of friendship and the ...

A carving of the tale of Gilgamesh Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP (Glasg) via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 The first great masterpiece of world literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, recounts the ...

An ancient story takes shape in Marin Shakespeare Company’s capacious black box on Fourth Street in San Rafael. A retelling of one of the oldest tales in the historical era — since the advent of ...

Nick Owchar is acting deputy editor of Book Review. Seamus HEANEY isn’t the only one intent on making the classics relevant to our times. Stephen Mitchell’s translation of “Gilgamesh” (The Free Press: ...

I remember it as clearly as if it were yesterday. I was sitting on a stone wall in Bloomington, Ind., in the last hours of my undergraduate career. I had already been admitted to seminary and had only ...

The Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk Season 2 is a Japanese anime TV series that originally premiered in 2009. In this edition, Jil and Fatina meet up with a little girl who encourages them to ...

Izak Bulten has written for Listverse, ScreenRant, CBR, TheTalko, TheGamer, GameRant, and The Art Of Puzzles. In his free time, he enjoys animating, playing board/video games, and talking about movies ...

The ancient Mesopotamian god-king, Gilgamesh, will be the next deity to step into the Battleground of the Gods, clashing with Tiamat in the new Cinematic Reveal Trailer. On Mar. 30, the SMITE by Titan ...