Other major groups within the Semitic family include East Semitic, represented by groups such as the Akkadians(Assyrians & Babylonians) in texts such as the Enuma Elish about Marduk’s battle with Tiamat and the Epic of Gilgamesh, and Central Semitic, mostly represented by the Arabs in texts ...
Epic of GilgameshThe Flood Tablet, 11th cuneiform tablet in a series relating the Gilgamesh epic, from Nineveh, 7th centurybce; in the British Museum, London.(more) The earliest known epic poetry is that of theSumerians. Its origin has been traced to a preliterate heroic age, not later tha...