The Epic of Gilgamesh was typical for it’s time in that it included early mythology and early religion. Much of the history of Mesopotamia was heavily infused with religion such as the Babylonian Creation myth, or the Enuma Elish, the Epic of Gilgamesh is a long epic poem important to Mesopotamian culture and worship of the gods and is considered as sacred writing. The epic was written by Shin-eqi-unninni around 2750 to 2500 BCE. The is preserved on twelve clay tablets and had been transcribed from the ancient Sumerian language to Akkadian in a form of writing called cuneiform, which was developed around the 3000 BCE. The writing system first contain symbolic pictographs, which then became more abstract until the Sumerians began to partially rely on an alphabet system. Cuneiform documents were written on clay tablets with a stylus made out of bone or reed material to engrave characters or ideographs on wet clay. Many ancient sacred texts, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, were transcribed over hundreds of years in cuneiform script, a writing style which was refined over time. History and legends were recorded in cuneiform. Another example would the Babylonian Creation Myth, which depicts the transitions from the Matriarchy to Patriarchy.