Library of Ashurbanipal
The oldest surviving royal library in the world, assembled by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in his palace at Nineveh - some 30,000 cuneiform tablets that preserved the Epic of Gilgamesh and much of the surviving corpus of Mesopotamian literature and science.
Dated events and their evidence
- 650 BCE mainstream
library assembled under Ashurbanipal source - 1849 CE mainstream
tablets rediscovered by Layard and Rassam source
Where
36.3594° N, 43.1528° E
Sources
- https://www.worldhistory.org/Library_of_Ashurbanipal/
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/projects/what-was-ashurbanipals-library
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