The Epic of Gilgamesh is best known from a version called ‘He who saw the Deep’, which circulated in Babylonia and Assyria in the first millennium BC. The Babylonians believed this poem to have been the responsibility of a man called Sîn-leqi-unninni, a learned scholar of Uruk whom modern scholars consider to have lived some time about 1200–1000 BC. However, we now know that ‘He who saw the Deep’ is a revision of one or more earlier versions of the epic.
