» View of the exhibition catalogue.
» View of the exhibition catalogue. All articles were written by students of the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin.
» Wonderful illustrations by the young artist Franziska Leischker, who produced these screen prints exclusively for the exhibition.
About the project In 2007/2008, the exhibition “Gilgamesch. Archäologie einer unsterblichen Gestalt im Alten Orient” took place at the August Kestner Museum in Hannover. It provided an insight into one of the oldest literary texts known today – the epic of Gilgamesh, the mythical king of ancient Uruk. This fascinating 5-millenia-old epic tells the story […]