The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C. Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the.

Telling the tale of the adventures of King Gilgamesh and his trustworthy friend Enkidu. The epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest written story, known to exist. The oldest Existing versions of this.

The word Mesopotamia comes from Greek words meaning land between the rivers. The rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates. The first settlers to this region did not speak Greek, it was only thousands.