BACKGROUND:One of the greatest cities in ancient Sumer was the city of Uruk.Legend says that once upon a time,on the banks of the Euphrates,in the great city of Uruk,there lived a king named Gilgamesh.In truth,a king named Gilgamesh may actually have existed.His name is on the Sumerian King List,a list written in cuneiform1 on clay tablets2,discovered by archaeologists3.