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

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

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.

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