While Osiris is immortality, as he is the eternal god of the dead, Gilgamesh is an entirely different story about the same yearning for eternal life. The epic of Gilgamesh is one big myth that the Mesopotamians used to describe almost every major aspect of how they came to be. ... It's a long epic of how the great Gilgamesh brings civilization to his people by giving them wood and stone, and then quests for eternal life after the death of his best friend. ... Both Osiris and Gilgamesh are culture heroes, the difference is that the Egyptians supposedly get eternal life, and Gilgamesh an...

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(Shuter) The oldest written story was called The Epic of Gilgamesh, and even though it was written down, it remained strictly within the oral tradition. It has been proven that this Epic appeared in the Jewish Bible as well as other pieces of later literature. This collection of stories about a Sumerian hero laid the groundwork for the early epic poems such as the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid, and led to the development to poetry and prose writing. ...

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1. 60 million years ago, the age of giant reptiles came to an end. Dinosaurs ruled the earth, while mammals were not able to evolve because they could never challenge the dinosaurs. Then, a comet hit the earth and the dinosaurs disappeared. Mammals, including primates, were then able to evolve. Over 5 million years ago, primates walked on all fours. ...

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