Enmerkar was the second king of Uruk. He followed his father Mesh-ki-ang-gasher (son of Utu) after disappearing into the sea. According to legend, Enmerkar Uruk built and ruled 420 years.
Enmerkar is known from some Sumerian legends, the most famous is "Enmerkar and Mr. van Aratta". This legend is written on a tablet for the first time. Here he is himself called the son of the god Utu. Enmerkar and Mr. Aratta were eternal rivals. Enmerkar's Envoy tells of a "golden age, without snakes, without scorpions ... when man had no enemy." Then all people could speak in the same language with their god Enlil. Enki, god of magic and civilization, was unable to speak about their behavior and decided to alienate the tongues in their mouths. The story of the 'Tower of Babel' would be distracted later.
The historian David Rohl says there are similarities between Enmerkar, founder of Uruk and Nimrod the hunter, founder of Erech (Biblical name for Uruk) according to Genesis 10. Nimrod undertook according to the later traditions in which Genesis 10 became Genesis 11 coupled, also the construction of the Tower of Babel.
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