Ashurbanipal Library Project
Ashurbanipal Library Project
The Library that once belonged to Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-c.
630 BC), is one of most remarkable and fascinating archaeological
discoveries ever made. More than 30,000 clay tablets bearing cuneiform
inscriptions were excavated by the British Museum between the 1850's and
1930's at the site of the imperial capital, Nineveh. In its day it had
been the biggest and most wide-ranging collection of texts yet
assembled. Its discovery threw wide open the doors to our understanding
of ancient Mesopotamia.
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