吉尔伽美什起初非常绝望，觉得一切努力都白费了。但他渐渐领悟到——生命的意义，或许本来就不在于长生不死，而在于活着的时候真心去爱、去创造、去被人记住。他回到乌鲁克后，把城墙修得更加雄伟，这座城的故事，也就这样流传了四千多年。顺带一提，吉尔伽美什的旅途中还听说过一个古老的大洪水传说——这和小喜之前听过的大禹治水的故事，还有点奇妙的呼应呢。
At first Gilgamesh fell into despair, feeling that all his effort had been for nothing. But slowly he came to understand — perhaps the meaning of life was never about living forever, but about truly loving, creating, and being remembered while you're alive. He returned to Uruk and rebuilt its walls even grander than before, and the story of that city has been told for over four thousand years since. By the way, during his journey Gilgamesh also heard of an ancient great flood legend — which echoes rather nicely with the story of Yu the Great that Magpie heard before.

吉尔伽美什史诗原本刻在十二块泥板上，沉睡在地下两千多年，直到1872年才被英国学者乔治·史密斯在大英博物馆的一堆泥板碎片中重新破译出来，这才让世界重新认识了这位四千年前的乌鲁克国王。它比《圣经》和《荷马史诗》都要古老得多，是人类历史上第一部留下姓名的长篇史诗。🏺📜

The Epic of Gilgamesh was originally inscribed on twelve clay tablets that lay buried underground for over two thousand years, until 1872 when British scholar George Smith deciphered it from a pile of tablet fragments at the British Museum, bringing the world's oldest known epic back into the light. It predates both the Bible and Homer's epics, making it the first long narrative poem in human history whose author and story survive to this day.