Rick Spear je profesionálnym zlodejom. Práve sa spolu so svojou priateľkou Carol ubytoval v Istanbule, kde je ako ináč, obchodne. Tu dostane od britského lorda Deana náročnú úlohu, nájsť hrobku bájneho Gilgameša a doniesť odtiaľ predmet nevyčísliteľnej hodnoty – legendami opradené a magickou silou obdarené žezlo. Nebude to však žiadna prechádzka ružovou záhradou, drahocenný predmet je chránený množstvom dômyselných pascí a lord Dean nie je sám, kto si tento predmet brúsi zuby.

The spirits of dead Indians are haunting a couple's house, and they call in an exorcist, whose trademark is a black whip, to get rid of them.

A priceless tablet of Gilgamesh, the oldest and most important work of literature is stolen from a museum. A security guard vows to do whatever it takes to get it back from a group of smugglers. Along the way, he faces his own inner demons.

Mesopotamia was the site of the Sumerian civilisation, which flourished at the confluence of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. From 5000 to 2000 BC, the Sumerians flourished in a hostile environment by developing agriculture and irrigation and they opened up the trade routes of the ancient world. It was the Sumerians who invented writing and the wheel, and they first divided time into minutes and seconds. In the end however the Babylonian civilisation took the place of the Sumerians. However their heritage and myths live on in the Mediterranean and Western worlds to this day.