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An excerpt from the epic poem accompanied by the Sumerian lute played by Peter Pringle in Nebuchadnezzar palace in Babylon, Iraq.








I was born in the wrong era.

I was recently looking at who invented the banjo and was impressed.

The Banjo is of African origin, mainly from the Sintir and Ngoni instruments used in Nortwest and West Africa.

Gnawa Sufi music from Morocco - Sintir.



Ivory Coast - Ngoni

The epic of Gilgamesh is written both in Sumerian an Language isolate and Akkadian the oldest known cognate Semitic language. In the sumerian epic of gilgamesh has alot of Akkadian vocab.