Reading the Library of Ashurbanipal

NOV 25 2024 · 12:00

Reading the Library of Ashurbanipal

British Museum curator Dr Jon Taylor on the 7th-century BCE Assyrian king's collection of cuneiform tablets from Nineveh, around 30,000 fragments, the oldest surviving systematically assembled library, and the source of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

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