They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an early-attested Indo-European language, as well as numerous fragments in other Anatolian languages, alongside Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hurrian texts.

Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is ... The scribe, Nur-Sin, selected the wet clay and wrote the text with a blunt reed, and then the tablet was baked. Cuneiform is one of the earliest ...

if one cross-references his paternity with another ancient text, the Sumerian King List, 3 one finds that Gilgamesh is also listed as the son of the “divine phantom lord of Kulaba.” ...