The world’s oldest known library, the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, in what is today Iraq, was created in the seventh century B.C.E. to store clay tablets used for recordkeeping. Its librarians ...

Libraries go back a long, long way. The first known example, the Library of Ashurbanipal (which is where we get the 4,000-year-old “Epic of Gilgamesh’) was located in what is now Nineveh, Iraq ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

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The Assyrian Australian Association (AAA) extended an invitation to an esteemed Assyrian poet from the United States to lead ...

The library of Ashurbanipal is now stored in the British Museum (hence its marvellous survey in 2018), but it has taken almost 180 years for its secrets to be revealed through painstaking scholarship.

Through the ages, humans have tried to preserve their knowledge and treasures in various repositories, and some of those storehouses have been massive in scale. The library of Ashurbanipal ...

The Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh was a biggie with more than 30,000 clay tablets. Modern scholars found much of interest as they checked out the library. In ...