Because Ashurbanipal was well-read, he could interpret religious writings on his own. Thus, the astrologers and scribes couldn't take him for a ride. His library had over 30,000 tablets, making it the ...

Ashurbanipal's military prowess was unquestionable, as his Assyrian Empire conquered lands from Egypt to Mesopotamia, but the mighty king crowed the loudest about his great royal library, the ...

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 ...

anyaivanova // Shutterstock. 15 beautiful libraries from around the world. Libraries are almost as ancient as the written word. The oldest-known library, the Library of Ashurbanipal, dates back to ...

The Ashurbanipal Library consisted of five floors, two of which were underground and dedicated to storage of books and other materials. Plans called for the ground floor to have halls for seminars and ...

The Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh contained more than 30,000 clay tablets — old Ash must have been a voracious reader. Among his collection were the “Enuma Elish” ...

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

Ashurbanipal (ruled 669-631BC), last of the great Assyrian kings, ... Poetry appears in The Epic of Gilgamesh (discovered in the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal in the 19th century), ...

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 ...

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 ...