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A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...
Should libraries even be quiet? Libraries now must redefine what “quiet” even is. A library is a roof over a public square, and it might get loud in there.
The Assyrian Australian Association (AAA) extended an invitation to an esteemed Assyrian poet from the United States to lead ...
Since its inception, the Kickapoo Tribal Library in McLoud has had to jump over multiple hurdles: bad weather slowed facility ...
Boulder Public Library District staff are setting their sights on a fall opening for the new Gunbarrel Library as the ...
Kings and Generals on MSN19d
Seven Forgotten Wonders of the Ancient WorldEveryone knows the Great Pyramid and the Hanging Gardens—but what about the wonders that didn’t make the original list? In this stunning 3D documentary, Kings and Generals brings seven other ...
Her husband was a prominent Assyriologist known for uncovering the Library of Ashurbanipal. Perhaps, Gänsicke suggests, “the set’s purpose was as much to declare her husband’s ...
With the benefit of his unusual education, Ashurbanipal understood the power of knowledge. His library is that of a reflective and educated man, but also one designed to consolidate a king’s rule.
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.
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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