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Library of Nineveh
The Library of Nineveh, also known as the Library of Ashurbanipal, was a collection of thousands of cuneiform tablets assembled by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in the seventh century BCE. It contained literary, religious, scholarly and administrative texts, including the Epic of Gilgamesh. Its rediscovery in the nineteenth century was fundamental to modern knowledge of Mesopotamia and the Assyrian Empire.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Library of Nineveh. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/library-of-nineveh
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