The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal in Mosul. Baghdad -- It does not seem that the 3,000-year-old Royal Library of Ashurbanipal in Mosul will reopen soon, even though international institutions and ...

Relief from the 7th century BC showing roops of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal attack a city with archers and war machines. (DeAgostini/Getty Images) The British Museum is well placed to refer to the ...

The Assyrian Australian Association launched the Ashurbanipal Library on Thursday, May 5, 2022, with more than 300 invited guests celebrating the occasion at Eden Venues in Bonnyrigg. The Evening saw ...

The Assyrian Australian Association has been working hard to revive the Ashurbanipal Library which will be officially launched on 5 May, 2022. Ramsin Warda is the head of the Ashurbanipal Library ...

Libraries are almost as ancient as the written word. The oldest-known library, the Library of Ashurbanipal, dates back to the 7th-century BCE. Belonging to an Assyrian king and housed in two buildings ...

In one of the most memorable scenes in “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, the world’s oldest epic, the eponymous hero confronts Humbaba, a monster who guards the Cedar Forest, the realm of the gods at the edge ...

The great king Ashurbanipal was seriously not into lions, absolutely hated the things. The first of many gorgeously detailed Assyrian wall reliefs in this mesmerising exhibition depicts the king ...

A single piece of jewellery reveals the true meaning of Assyrian reliefs from the 7th-Century BC. Kelly Grovier explores how images depicting a staged lion hunt were used to proclaim a king's ...