The Epic of Gilgamesh was the product of the Mesopotamian civilization. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a poem about a king who prevailed over the Sumerian City-state of Uruk, one of the great cities of ancient Mesopotamia, who is glorified as a hero and a warrior around 2700 B.C. The Epic of Gilgamesh is said to be written in Akkadian, the language of the Babylonians, on stone tablets.