Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh is an ancient human hero. Along with Sargon, Hammurabi, and Ashurbanipal, he's a Mesopotamian.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

Garrison Blackrock claimed that, four thousand years before the 21st century, Gilgamesh and his tribe discovered the Enigma of Combination. The effects of the Enigma "combined" their thoughts and ideas, allowing the group to work together and found Uruk, Earth's first city. Gilgamesh raised a wall of black rock around the city to protect the alien artifact. His descendants, who took on the surname "Blackrock" in honor of that feat, inherited the Enigma and passed it down to subsequent generations. ONoffON

The veracity of all this was questionable, given that Blackrock—the theory's only known proponent and supposedly the Blackrock line's latest scion—was a Cybertronian android with fabricated memories. Helden

Spacewarp's Log

Spacewarp's long journey home from a Xobitor reality included an encounter with the cybernetically-enhanced clone of Gilgamesh. Spacewarp's Log, 24/1/2016

Notes

• Uruk is not the oldest city in the world by a comfortable margin, with Jericho showing signs of uninterrupted inhabition to as far back as 9000 BCE, and the temple at Göbekli Tepe - where people certainly 'got their minds together' - being even older. Maybe the Enigma passed from tribe to tribe; it wouldn't be the first time history was rewritten by the last survivor. Or maybe it's an internal discrepancy within Blackrock's implanted history. Who knows?

External links

• Gilgamesh at Wikipedia