Assyrian King Archive

Stele Of Tell al-Rimah And Deeds Of Assyrian King Adad-nirari Against Rebellious Kings

AncientPages.com | February 22, 2022

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Stele of Tell al-Rimah, dated to 796 BC, is a stone stela from the reign of the Assyrian king Adad-nigari III (810-783 BC)

Archaeology

Clay Tablets Of Assyrian ‘King Of The World’ Esarhaddon Found Beneath Biblical Tomb Of Jonah

AncientPages.com | March 1, 2018

AncientPages.com - Unfortunately, sometimes something must be destroyed so that another discovery can be brought to light. Seven clay tablets, found in a palace hidden under the Tomb of

Part of a circular clay tablet with depictions of constellations (planisphere); the reverse is uninscribed; restored from fragments and incomplete; partly accidentally vitrified in antiquity during the destruction of the place where it was found. Found in Kuyunjik, ancient Nineveh, in the so-called “Library of Ashurbanipal”. Neo-assyrian period.

Civilizations

Assyrian King Ashurbanipal’s Great Library With Thousands Of Cuneiform Tablets

AncientPages.com | December 9, 2015

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The oldest surviving royal library in the world is that of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-around 630 BC). British Museum archaeologists discovered more than