The Sumerian legend of Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, for example, mentions that Aratta is somewhere to the east of the Sumerian territory, which some researchers have interpreted as possibly being ...

The Gilgamesh epic has often been called the world's oldest surviving story. This isn't strictly true: That distinction probably belongs to the Sumerian epic Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta. Still ...

In the Sumerian epic Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, the heroic king defeats his enemy by inventing and using superior technology: the ability to write on clay tablets.

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