#uruk

'A slippery path is not feared by two people who help eachother.' --The Epic Of Gilgamesh, Tablet V Translated in 1998, fragments remain. The story about Gilgamesh King of Uruk and his friend Enkidu. TABLET

Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have found an eight-metre (26ft) statue submerged in groundwater in a Cairo slum that they say probably depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than