The king and his library.(excavations at Nineveh)(King Assurbanipal)

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Assurbanipal was not only an ambitious king well skilled in the art of war, but he was also trained as a scholar. Excavations at Nineveh revealed that he had a library of more than 5,000 cuneiform tablets. Included among them were all the major literary and scholarly works of the Mesopotomian tradition,

While Assurbanipol's predecessors had begun collecting tablets, none had ever taken so keen on interest in scholarly works as he did. He sent scribes south into Babylonia, where there was an older and more developed literary tradition. They confiscated tablets from ...

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