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How does the afterlife appear in Enkidu's dream? How might this depiction have influenced Gilgamesh's search for immortality? What does Siduri urge Gilgamesh to do? What does Utnapishtim urge him to do? Why do the gods send the flood? Why does Enlil ultimately decide to make Utnapishtim and his wife immortal? What does this suggest about the role the gods were understood to play in the lives of individual human beings? At the end, what does Enlil say is Gilgamesh's destiny? How is this similar to immortality? 2-1 | A Mesopotamian Quest for Immortality From the Epic of Gilgamesh The Epic of Gilgamesh began as a series of poems about a king who probably ruled the city of Uruk around 2700 b.c.e. Sometime between 1300 b.c.e. and 1000 b.c.e. a scribe put together many of these poems, added some material, and created a unified work in his language, Akkadian, writing it on clay tablets in cuneiform. Those tablets and many others were in a library at Ninevah in ancient Assyria when the city was attacked and destroyed in the seventh century b.c.e. Thousands of broken tablets from the library were shipped to the British Museum in.