What does the oldest story ever written sound like? Peter Pringle performs the Epic of Gilgamesh in ancient Sumerian, a language no one has spoken in over 4,000 years. He sings with a Sumerian lute called the Gişgudî, in the ruins of Babylon, where kings once walked. This isn’t just music, it’s time travel. The Epic of Gilgamesh was carved into clay around 2100 B.C. in ancient Mesopotamia. No one knows exactly how it sounded, but this is the closest we can get. If you love lost history, ancient