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The British Museum is to collaborate with Iraq. (News).(to restore Assyrian King Ashurbanipal's palace library)(Brief Article)
; The British Museum is to collaborate with Iraq on a project to bring the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (669-631BC) at his magnificent palace in Nineveh, now Iraq, back to life. The Museum has some 25,000 clay tablets in its collection...
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Ein vergoldeter Silberbecher der Zeit Assurbanipals im Miho Museum: Historische Darstellungen des 7. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.(Brief Article)
; ...inscription that mentions the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (668-627 B.c.). On the inner rim is...wall reliefs from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, conveniently published...correspond to a later phase in the reign of Ashurbanipal, and that the inclusion of Elamite...
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(book reviews)
; ...as well as on the identification of Ashurbanipal as Kandalanu. Frame makes use of published...under the overlordship of his brother Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria. In effect, Babylonia...beginning of the decline of Assyria. Ashurbanipal installed Kandalanu as vassal king...
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Art of Glass
; ...glassmaking was Assyria, where the instructions on how to make glass are contained in tablets from the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (669-626 B.C.). This knowledge was handed down, from father to son, from family to family, over the centuries. Four hundred...
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 "Sunday Tribune (South Africa)")
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Best of the best.(Lifestyle)
; ...over 5 000 years. q Easy flight to Cairol 2 The Hunts of Ashurbanipal Relief sculptures from Nineveh, northern Iraq (c645BC) British...none more so than those depicting the hunts by the ruler Ashurbanipal. They portray the triumph of the king over beasts such as...
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The East-West tale of a once and future king BOOKS & IDEAS
; ...too. One of the last Assyrian kings, Ashurbanipal, had the literary skills and interests...Gilgamesh,'' a story already ancient in Ashurbanipal's time. When Nineveh fell in 612 B...Austen Henry Layard in his discovery of Ashurbanipal's library and eventually became a great...
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Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, part II: Assurbanipal through Sin-sharru-ishkun.(Book Review)
; ...includes, in addition to the remainder of texts assigned to Ashurbanipal's reign, all of the texts dated by post-canonical eponyms...which begins during Esarhaddon's reign and continues into Ashurbanipal's, was included in part I in order to make the length of...
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In Search of the Secrets of Peak Performers
; ...Pharaoh Djoser, who built the first pyramid-the stepped pyramid at Saqqara. But many more would follow: the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, Rembrandt van Rijn, Marie Curie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Oprah. It's said that they may be found in every field of knowledge...
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 "South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)")
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`The Buried Book': Historical heroes behind an ancient epic.
; ...palace of Sennacherib and the library of Ashurbanipal, Sennacherib's grandson and the last great...Damrosch delves into the life and career of Ashurbanipal, is even more satisfying. Ashurbanipal was first trained for a priestly position...
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Cultural exchange that transcends battle lines as Britain and Iraq recreate world's oldest library
; ...library, established by the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, is of immeasurable importance. It...of Genesis. King from 669 to 627BC, Ashurbanipal was a great warrior, hunter and a high...civilisation. To recreate the library of Ashurbanipal will be a monumental achievement. The...
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