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Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh (, ; Akkadian: ππππ¦, romanized: GilgΔmeΕ‘; originally Sumerian: ππππ΅π, romanized: Bilgames) was a hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology and the protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh,
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Gilgamesh (, ; Akkadian: ππππ¦, romanized: GilgΔmeΕ‘; originally Sumerian: ππππ΅π, romanized: Bilgames) was a hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology and the protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian during the late 2nd millennium BC. He was possibly a historical king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, who was posthumously deified. His rule probably would have taken place sometime in the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period, c. 2900β2350 BC, though he became
